Pears poached in red wine

6 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
6 mediums Anjou, Bosc or other pears
1 small Orange
6 Whole cloves
4 cups Dry red wine
1 cup Plus 2 tbs sugar
1/2 stick cinnamon

Directions

With a potato peeler, remove about half of the peel from the pears, leaving vertical strips of peel intact and giving the fruit a striped appearance. Stud the unpeeled orange with the cloves. Combine the wine, sugar, cinnamon stick, and orange in a stock pot. Bring the mixture to a boil and add the pears. Lower the heat to a simmer and cook the pears for about 30 minutes or until they are tender. Cool the mixture and chill the pears in the cooking liquid.

To serve, put 1 whole pear on each serving plate with 1-2 tbs of the wine sauce around each pear.

Vincent's Cookbook by Vincent Guerithault ISBN 0-89815-566-5 pg 214 Submitted By DIANE LAZARUS On 07-14-95

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