Shabbat Coffee Cake With Red Wine Soaked Prunes Food

I know what you're thinking: stewed prunes? But this is not that. This is prunes poached in wine, a classic French dessert that you still see on dessert trolleys in bistros all over Paris. Some recipes for it have you soak the prunes in water for up to 12 hours to plump them before poaching, others have you soak them in black tea. Here you let them steep for only five minutes in just-boiled water, which means you don't lose the essence of the prunes to the liquid. Then you poach them in sweetened wine spiced up with a cinnamon stick and vanilla bean, and let them steep again for two hours. The prunes retain their intense flavor, and the wine is both spicy and just sweet enough. Serve the prunes cold or warm; you can also keep them in wine in the refrigerator for a week or two, dipping into them to spoon over ice cream or into yogurt, or just enjoying them on their own.

Provided by Martha Rose Shulman

Categories     dessert

Time 25m

Yield 6 to 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 6

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 151, UnsaturatedFat 0 grams, Carbohydrate 29 grams, Fat 0 grams, Fiber 2 grams, Protein 1 gram, SaturatedFat 0 grams, Sodium 3 milligrams, Sugar 20 grams