Poached pears

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 pears, you will need:

• 1 4 Pears
• 2 3 pinches vitamin C
• 3 800 ml Poaching syrup
• Total weight: 1,520 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
18 min.	10 min.	28 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Take 4 Pears, peel...
2	...and drop them as you go into a bowl of cold water to which you've added 3 pinches vitamin C, or if you don't have any, the juice of a lemon. We do this to prevent the pears from turning brown once peeled, as they oxidize very quickly.
3	Remove a pear from the water, cut it in 2 lengthways, remove the core (an apple scoop is ideal for this, or alternatively a small spoon), then the tail of each half, before plunging them back into the cold water.
4	Do this for all the pears.
5	Pour into a saucepan, add 800 ml Poaching syrup and cook over medium heat until a knife blade can easily cut through a pear.
6	Leave to cool in the syrup, covered, until ready to use. Your poached pears are ready.

Remarks

Poaching syrup can be flavored with vanilla, aniseed, lemon zest, etc. etc. Feel free to follow your ideas.
This syrup can be reused several times, and you can even freeze it between uses.
You'll find recipes that recommend using pear trimmings (peelings and hearts) to flavor the poaching syrup before using it. Having tried them with and without, I don't find any marked difference.

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