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Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 5 Minutes |
Ready In: 15 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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These look very elegant but easy and lf. Ingredients:
6 bosc pears |
1 cup sauterne or 1 cup port wine |
1 cup water |
1/2 cup granulated sugar |
2 cinnamon sticks |
5 whole cloves |
x lemon, zest of, cut in strips |
1/2 lemon, juice of |
Directions:
1. Peel pears, leaving stem intact.
2. Using a small melon baller, remove stems and seeds from bottoms of pears.
3. In a saucepan that will accommodate pears upright, combine wine, water, sugar, cinnamon sticks, cloves, lemon zest and lemon juice.
4. Bring to a boil.
5. Add pears, cook over medium heat, maintaining a boil for 5 minutes.
6. Remove from heat, allow pears to cool slowly.
7. Baste pears occasionally with poaching liquid.
8. When completely cooled, chill pears.
9. Serve on individual dessert plates; spoon liquid over pears.
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