Poached Pears

in on Tuesday, December 6, 2011

   I have always loved photographs of pears; especially the one’s that are poached.  But I have never had poached pears before.  The only form of cooked pear that I have ever tried are grilled ones.  Therefore, yesterday I decided it was time I poached some and what do you know it was not bad!  Have you seen some of the pictures online of desserts with pears.  Hm.. they are delicious to even look at.  I may still be leaning towards grilled pears but I am sure when I master this art by adding sherry like Nisha has done here or add chocolate and ice-cream like Helene, you can see pictures here, my leanings may be flipped.   

Pears


This far, what I have loved most about poaching pears is the aroma.  It permeated every bit of my apartment yesterday and it was delicious!  The combination of cinnamon, ginger, lime, cloves and pepper corn boiling and simmering with pears releases an aroma that cannot be explained.  It was sublime, believe me!

Poached Pears

  Yes! Surely, the biggest high for me from poaching pears is the fragrance so far.   And I will do it again, and again even if it is only to get the house smelling like the way it did yesterday.  But the next time I will add wine or orange while simmering and serve it with chocolate and vanilla ice-cream. Either ways, I have arrived in the poaching business.   If you are interested in poaching read on to know how I did this.   


Poached Pears

I also tried the chocolate-cake-in-a-mug yesterday and loved it.  It was easy peasy like it suggests and for a microwave anything it was soft, moist and delicious.  You can find the recipe here on our site.

Chocolate Cake in a Mug



To Poach Pears You will Need:

Pears – 4 peeled with stem on (Bosc is the best variety to poach but I used comice) 
Sugar – 1 Cup
Water  - 4 Cups
Cloves – ½ tspn
Cinnamon Stick – 1 inch piece
Pepper corns – 6 – 8
Ginger – ½ inch piece
Lime – 1

Method:
1.       Heat water and sugar in a pan which can hold 4 pears.
2.       When the sugar dissolves slide in the pears and all the spices. Squeeze the lime in as well.
3.       Reduce the heat and leave it to simmer
4.       Cook like this for about 20 minutes and pears should be poached.  You may check insert a fork to make sure the fruit is cooked.
5.       Serve with ice-cream or cake.
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