Ingredients
- 2 firm cooking apples, such as Golden Delicious, Macoun, Cortland, or Gravenstien
- 2 ripe pears, such as Anjou, Bartlett, or Comice
- 1 lemon
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 (3-inch) cinnamon stick or vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 1 to 2 tablespoons Calvados or Apple Jack, optional
- Serving suggestion: Vanilla Ice cream and gingerbread cookies
Directions
Peel, halve and core, both the apples and pears. Cut each 1/2 into 4 wedges and transfer to a medium bowl. Halve the lemon and squeeze the juice over the fruit, toss lightly.
Melt the butter in a skillet over high heat. Add the sugar, and cook until the sugar begins to caramelize. Add the fruit the caramel may seize (harden) don't be alarmed. Add the cinnamon stick or vanilla, and cook, stirring, until the caramel melts, and the fruit is juicy, about 7 minutes.
If adding the Calvados, remove the pan from the heat before adding the alcohol. Return the pan to the heat. To flambe the alcohol on a gas burner, carefully tip the pan toward the flame; and on an electric element hold a long match at the inside edge of the pan until it ignites. Swirl the pan over the heat until the flame subsides. Serve fruit, warm, over ice cream with cookies.
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By Kat1132
on May 30, 2010
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I cooked it and found that some of the advice was very off. For example, doing it on High heat created a burnt bubbling mass of molten caramel that sputtered and made a mess of the kitchen. I recommend a smaller lemon than a larger one and just enough to prevent the fruit from turning brown, adding the lemon flavor and the burnt caramel did not taste pleasant. There is also the time that should be increased to at least ten minutes. Not a recipe for beginners. I'm wiling to try again, but not any time soon. It has a lot of potential though. Try it but be prepared to add all the ingredients in advance.
By elizabethaguayo...
Shawnee, 55
on July 06, 2009
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This was so easy and yet felt so gourmet! I omitted the alcohol and I didn't have a cinnamon stick on hand so I used some cinnamon sugar.
A nice way to spruce up some ice cream.
By van2000_7654308
miami, FL
on May 13, 2007
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if you want to impress your friends and family, you have to make this for them... i even impressed myself... i felt like i was in a restaurant- but i made it!!!! .. Tyler, i love this recipe and i love your show!! thank you!!!
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