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Vanilla Poached Pears
Tender pear wedges gently poached in a vanilla-lemon syrup and sealed hot in jars. They keep for months and are wonderful over porridge, yoghurt or cake..
Cook time
40 min
Servings
6
Ingredients
6
Nutrition
per serving140 kcal
Calories
1 g
Protein
0 g
Fat
34 g
Carbs
Instructions
- 1
Rinse two clean screw-top jars with boiling water and set them aside. Peel the pears, quarter them, remove the cores and cut into wedges.
- 2
Heat the water and sugar in a wide pan. Split the vanilla pod lengthways, scrape out the seeds and add both seeds and pod to the syrup.
- 3
Pare two strips of peel from the lemon and squeeze out the juice. Add both to the syrup with a pinch of salt.
- 4
Slip in the pear wedges and poach over gentle heat for 20 minutes, until soft but still holding their shape.
- 5
Pack the wedges into the jars, top with the hot syrup to the brim, seal at once and let them cool upside down.
