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Poached Pears in Cherry Wine Sauce


Ingredients:
  • 4 each pears, not quite ripe, peeled with stems intact
  • 1 each bottle good quality robust red wine
  • 3/4 cup cane sugar
  • 1 each cinnamon stick
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla
  • 1/2 cup Chukar Dried Bing Cherries
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Directions:
 Place pears in sauce pan in standing position. Add sugar, lemon juice, vanilla, cinnamon stick and ample wine to cover pears. Bring to a boil, lower to simmer for 20 minutes partially covered. Remove pears and position upright in glass dish. Add dried cherries to sauce and simmer to light syrup. Serve pears at room temperature or chilled, topped with wine sauce. Cherry Wine Sauce elevates many a dessert: ice cream, apple sauce, pound cake.

Contains:

- Bing Cherries, no sugar added