Cassis pears

AUTHOR
Janie Gentry
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 2
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: -1
  • 2 untreated lemons
  • 1/2 l dry red wine
  • 1/2 l Currant juice
  • 100 ml Cassis liqueur (currant liqueur)
  • 1 Vanilla pod
  • 500 g Sugar
  • 8-10 Pears (about 150 g each)

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash 1 lemon, cut into slices. Put wine, juice and liqueur in a large pot. Cut open the vanilla pod. Add lemon slices and sugar, bring to the boil while stirring. Simmer on low heat until the sugar is dissolved

  2. 2

    Squeeze the remaining lemon. Peel pears and sprinkle with lemon juice. Cook in the stock at low heat for about 30 minutes. Turn from time to time so that they turn red evenly. Leave to cool in the syrup

Categories & Tags

Snacks/PartyParty