Baby Pears Poached In  Red Wine Caramel
By: Fredo-Licioux
Published: Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 3:52am

Ingredients




4 cups sugar
2 cups water
1 teaspoon lemon juice
12 cups red wine
48 seckel baby pears-peeled&cored
4 1/2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
3 ounces molasses

Preparation

1 Caramelize the sugar, water and lemon juice 2 Add the red wine slowly to the caramel 3 Simmer pears in the wine for 20mins or til tender 4 Remove pears 5 Reduce the wine syrup to 6 cups 6 Add the vinegar and molasses 7 Cool the pears in the syrup 8 Serve w quenelle rice pudding, ginger ice-cream, hazelnut tuile & 9 Raspberry coulis 10 Seckel, a variety fo baby pear