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Poached Pears

Recipe courtesy Peter Kump School

Show: Cooking LiveEpisode: Cook Along 80: Poaching

Rated: 2 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (1)

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  • Level:

    Easy

  • Yield:

    4 servings

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups white wine
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 vanilla bean
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice, plus extra to prevent pears browning
  • 4 pears, peeled and cored (Bosc, Bartlett)
  • 2 1/4 cups sugar

Directions

In a saucepan, combine wine, water, vanilla bean and lemon juice. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add pears to poaching liquid and poach for 8 minutes. Remove pears from poaching liquid and continue to reduce sauce by one-half to one-third. Plate pears and pour reduced sauce around each one.

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  • recipe Poached Pears
    Anonymous 10-04-2005

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    how and when

    Rated: 2 stars out of 5
    how and when do you add the sugar that is called for in thi recipe!
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