Poached Pears In Sauternes Food

PEACHES IN SAUTERNES

Steps:

• Bring a pot of water to a boil and immerse the peaches in the water for 1 to 2 minutes, until the skins come off easily. Remove them with a slotted spoon and place them in a bowl of cold water to stop the cooking. Peel the peaches and then slice them in wedges off the pit and into a bowl. Stir in the sugar, Sauternes, and orange liqueur. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or overnight. Serve cool but not cold.

BAKED PEARS WITH SAUTERNES CUSTARD SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Peel pears, leaving stems intact, then core from bottom using a melon-ball cutter or a sharp small knife. Stir together raisins, brown sugar, zests, and 2 tablespoons Sauternes and fill pear cavities with mixture. Stand pears upright in a buttered baking dish just large enough to hold them and pour remaining cup Sauternes over pears.
• Cover dish tightly with foil and bake in middle of oven until tender, 30 to 40 minutes. Transfer pears to a serving dish or plates using a metal spatula to hold filling in place and pour cooking liquid through a sieve into a bowl.
• Whisk together yolks and granulated sugar in a large metal bowl and add hot cooking liquid in a stream, whisking constantly. Put bowl over a pan of barely simmering water and vigorously whisk, or beat with a handheld electric mixer, until mixture is tripled in volume and registers 160°F on an instant-read thermometer, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Serve pears warm with sauce.

POACHED PEARS IN HONEY, GINGER AND CINNAMON SYRUP

Steps:

• In a saucepan large enough to hold all the pears, combine the wine, Simple Syrup, cinnamon stick halves, honey, and ginger. Scrape in the seeds from the vanilla bean and add the bean and seeds to the saucepan. Bring the mixture to a simmer, stirring occasionally, until the honey has melted. Add the pears and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, turning occasionally, until the pears are tender. Remove the pears from the liquid and allow to cool.
• Continue to simmer the liquid until it thickens and is reduced by half, about 15 to 20 minutes. Cool to room temperature. Remove the cinnamon stick halves and the vanilla bean and discard.
• Place each pear on a small serving plate with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Drizzle with the honey, ginger and cinnamon syrup. Serve immediately.
• In a small saucepan, combine the sugar and water over medium heat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sugar has dissolved. Remove the pan from the heat and allow the syrup to cool.

POACHED PEARS IN SAUTERNES

Steps:

• Using a small, sharp knife, score a zigzag pattern in the skin around the top of each pear, working downwards from the stalk.
• Leaving the zigzag skin at the top in place, peel the rest of each pear very thinly so as to preserve their shape.
• Remove the core from the base, using a corer or a small melon baller.
• Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan big enough to hold everything, including the pears.
• Set over a medium heat until the liquid comes to the boil, then reduce the heat so that it is barely simmering.
• The cooking time will vary according to the ripeness of the pears.
• Very ripe pears will only take 5 minutes; much less ripe fruit will need up to 15 minutes.
• As soon as they are ready, turn off the heat.
• Transfer the pears with their poaching syrup to a bowl and leave at room temperature until needed.
• Serve one or two pears on each plate with a little orange zest and some syrup.

POACHED PEARS IN SAUTERNES

Steps:

• Using a small, sharp knife, score a zigzag pattern in the skin around the top of each pear, working downwards from the stalk. Leaving the zigzag skin at the top in place, peel the rest of each pear very thinly so as to preserve their shape.
• Remove the core from the base using a corer or small melon baller. Cut the orange zest into thin strips.
• Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan big enough to hold everything, including the pears. Set over a medium heat until the liquid comes to the boil, then reduce the heat so that it is barely simmering. The cooking time will vary according to the ripeness of the pears. Very ripe pears will only take 5 minutes, much less ripe fruit will need up to 15 minutes. As soon as they are ready, turn off the heat.
• Transfer the pears with their poaching syrup to a bowl and leave at room temperature until needed. Serve one or two pears on each plate with a little orange zest and some of the syrup.

FRESH PEACHES IN SAUTERNES SOAK WITH ANGELICA AND LAVENDER

Steps:

• Arrange the peach slices into the bottom of a large serving dish. Sprinkle over the lavender heads and then add the angelica leaves.
• Pour over enough dessert wine to cover the peaches. Turn the peach slices over a couple of times to coat them in the liquid, then cover the dish and chill the mixture in the fridge for at least four hours, or preferably overnight.
• To serve, spoon a portion of peaches in Sauternes into each of six serving bowls. Serve with a dollop of crème fraîche.

POACHED PEARS IN SPICED RED WINE

Steps:

• Halve the vanilla pod lengthways, scrape out the black seeds and put in a large saucepan with the wine, sugar, cinnamon and thyme. Cut each piece of pod into three long thin strips, add to pan, then lower in the pears.
• Poach the pears, covered, for 20-30 mins, making sure they are covered in the wine. The cooking time will very much depend on the ripeness of your pears - they should be tender all the way through when pierced with a cocktail stick. You can make these up to 2 days ahead and chill.
• Take the pears from the pan, then boil the liquid to reduce it by half so that it's syrupy. Serve each pear with the cooled syrup, a strip of vanilla, a piece of cinnamon and a small thyme sprig.

SPICED POACHED PEARS IN CHOCOLATE SAUCE

Steps:

• In a pan big enough to hold the pears snugly, tip in all the ingredients except the pears. Half fill the pan with water and bring to the boil. Simmer for 10 mins to infuse, drop in pears, cover and gently poach for about 30 mins until soft. Turn off the heat and set aside. The pears can be poached up to 2 days ahead and kept in the poaching syrup in the fridge.
• To make the chocolate sauce, tip the chocolate into a heatproof bowl. Bring the cream, milk and cinnamon to the boil and pour over the chocolate. Stir until the chocolate has melted. To serve, drain the pears and, holding them by the stem, dip them in the chocolate sauce to completely cover. Serve each pear with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream.

POACHED PEARS IN AUSTRALIAN SHIRAZ

Steps:

• Place the pears in a saucepan then pour over the red wine, sugar and port. Add the juice and zest of the lemon, ginger and the cinnamon stick then bring to the boil.
• Simmer in the red wine mixture until the pears are bright red and almost tender, about 20 minutes. Carefully remove the pears from the liquid, then boil the pear liquid until it has reduced and is syrupy.
• Return the pears to the syrup and allow the mixture to cool until ready to serve.

POACHED PEARS IN GINGER-LEMON SAUCE

Steps:

• With a vegetable peeler, pare yellow part only of peel from lemon.
• Cut peel into julienne strips to make 1 table- spoon.
• Ream enough lemon to make 1 tablespoon juice. In a 5 to 6 quart pan, combine lemon peel, lemon juice, ginger, sugar and 3 cups water.
• Bring to a boil.
• Add pears and more water, if needed, to cover them.
• Simmer, covered, until pears are tender when pierced, about 30 minutes.
• Put pears in 6 shallow-rimmed dishes or shallow bowls.
• On high heat, boil syrup, uncovered, until reduced to 1/2 cup, about 40 minutes.
• Pour syrup over pears.
• Cool, cover and chill until cold or up to 2 days.

RIESLING POACHED PEAR PIE

Steps:

• Make Laurie's My No Roll Pie Crust Recipe #51537 51537 according to directions.
• While pie shell is baking add lemon juice to water in a large bowl. Peal, halve and core pear; placing in bowl of lemon water as you go. Leave pears to sit in lemon water.
• Combine wine, 1 1/2 cups sugar and sliced lemon in large heavy saucepan and bring to boil over high heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. Once the syrup boils, teduce heat and keep at a simmer.
• Drain pears and discard lemon water. Add pears to the simmering syrup. Poach for 5 minutes turn over and poach 5 more minutes. Remove pears from syrup and place on paper towels to drain.
• Let syrup continue to simmer for about 20 minutes till reduced to 1 cup, set aside to cool.
• While syrup simmers make frangipane by combining almonds with 1/4 cup of sugar in a food processor and process until very finely ground. Add flour and pulse until well combind. Set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, use an electric mixter on medium high to beat butter and 1/4 cup sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg. Beat in vanilla and almond extract and cooled poaching syrup. Reduce mixer speed to low, add ground almond mixture and mix just until combined.
• Spread the frangipane into the pie crust.
• Fan the pears by making 1/4 inch wide slices without cuting through top of pear and then gently pressing to creat the fan.
• Very carefuly place 7 (other 5 halves are for serving) of the pear halvs on top of the frangipane (a spatula helps to gently slide them on) with the top of the pears to the center of the pie.
• Bake for 50 to 55 minutes, until frangipane is puffed, golden and solid to the touch. **If crust edges start to get too brown cover them with foil.** Cool on a wire rack.
• To serve place place a slice of pie and a 1/2 of a pear fan (1/4 of a pear) on each plate and drizzel with syrup.