Pears poached in wine

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Put wine, 1/4 litre of water, sugar, honey, lemon juice and zest in a not too big pot. Cut the vanilla pod open lengthwise, scrape out the pulp and put both in the pot.

2. 2

   Bring to the boil. Meanwhile, wash the pears, peel them and leave the stems on. Put the pears into the boiling stock and porch over low to medium heat for about 15 minutes. Leave to cool in the wine stock. Whip cream and icing sugar until semi-stiff.

3. 3

   Pear brandy at the end briefly suppressed. Lift the pears out of the stock, halve them and remove the core. Cut the pear halves open like a fan. Arrange on plates with some cream. Decorate as you like with a lemon spiral and serve dusted with icing sugar.