Name: Poached Bosc Pears
Ingredients: 1 ¼ cups (300 mL) packed brown sugar; 2 ½ cups (625 mL) dry red wine; 1 ½ cups (375 mL) water; 3 whole cloves; 1 stick cinnamon; 6 ripe Bosc USA Pears, peeled and cored; Crème anglaise or whipped cream for serving, optional

Poached Bosc Pears

Pear Bureau Northwest

6 servings

Simple and delicious, poached Bosc pears retain their distinctive buttery flavour and are firm enough to maintain shape. Lightly used, spices add their voice to this dessert, served warm or chilled.

Ingredients

- 1 ¼ cups
  
  (300 mL) packed brown sugar
- 2 ½ cups
  
  (625 mL) dry red wine
- 1 ½ cups
  
  (375 mL) water
- 3
  
  whole cloves
- 1
  
  stick cinnamon
- 6
  
  ripe Bosc USA Pears, peeled and cored
- Crème anglaise or whipped cream for serving, optional

Instructions

1. Dissolve sugar into wine and water. Add cloves and cinnamon stick. Pears may be poached whole, or cut in half and poached. Add pears to wine mixture and heat just until simmering.*
2. Lower heat and poach gently for 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to stand in poaching liquid overnight.
3. Gently remove them from the poaching liquid and drain briefly on paper towels.
4. Serve with crème anglaise, whipped cream, or a reduction of the poaching liquid. Garnish with fresh mint. To reduce poaching liquid, boil until liquid is reduced by two-thirds or becomes a light syrup.

Notes

*You may poach 2 or 3 pears at a time, removing when poached and adding rest of pears or halves.