Pickled pears...... (Seasonal F & V)

[Ali]

NOOOOOOO not with vinegar

Just made these for T tonight to be served with home-made ice-cream.

4 pears
Peeled, quartered and bits taken out
about 200ml red wine and one for the cook
2 x vanilla sugar packet thingys (7.5g each)

Van sug and wine into wok style pan til sug disolved

Chucked pears in

Kinda simmered for a while til pears redish and cooked but still pear shaped.

Took pears out of 'sauce' and set aside to cool.

Simmered 'sauce' til reduced. Left to cool.

Delish

[ianh]

I do this too.

Just a tip - if you buy vanilla pods and keep them in a jar full of castor sugar it works out far cheaper than buying the vanilla sugar - and the flavour of the pods lasts forever.

[philippa]

Sounds nice Ali.
I've done these sort of pickled pears in the past and they are lovely with cold meats. www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1302/pickled-pears

[<-Rinky-Dink->]

Mmmmmmmm Yuuummmmy!!!!!

[Madame Moorhen]

Aug 25, 2011 21:21:07 GMT 1 philippa said:

Sounds nice Ali.
I've done these sort of pickled pears in the past and they are lovely with cold meats. www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1302/pickled-pears

That sounds nice Philippa.

It's really hard with our pears telling when they are ripe, so I can never do anything with them other than eat them or give them to the chickens if they are overripe! There's only about 2 days between underripe and overripe and they all ripen at different times. *shrugs*

Maybe when the Conference pears are ripe (if I get it right this year!) I will have enough to try this recipe.

[Ali]

Like the actual 'pickled pears' recipe philippa - might try that too - love ginger.

[philippa]

The pickled pears are great at, dare I mention the word, Christmas.

[Madame Moorhen]

No you may not, smack smack.

Come back and remind us again in November.