Pears and Oranges

When I was growing up, we had a number of wild pear trees in the garden - very old and left over from when St John’s Wood was a real wood, or maybe from the garden of the monastery that gave the area its name. We were forever looking for ways to use them as they were definitely not eaters. This curious cold pudding - which I think must have been my mother’s invention - turned out to be a good way of serving them. Great for hot days or cold buffets.