Name: Sweet eggy bread and poached pears
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 30 g sugar; 1 l pear juice (or use apple if you can’t find pear); ½ tsp vanilla extract; ½ tsp cinnamon; ground cinnamon; 200 g natural yoghurt; 1 tbsp butter; 4 slices of sourdough bread; 2 star anise; 1 cinnamon stick; 6 pears, peeled, cored and quartered; 4 eggs; 100 ml whole milk

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Changing Tides

By Roberta Hall McCarron

Published 2024

About

There’s something really nice about getting stuck in to sophisticated kids’ food on a cold winter’s morning.

Ingredients

Poached Pears

1 l pear juice (or use apple if you can’t find pear)
2 star anise
1

Method

In a large pot, warm the juice, star anise and cinnamon stick over a medium heat.

Submerge the prepared pears in the pear juice and bring up to a simmer, then cook gently for 5 minutes. Check a piece to see if it’s done – you want it to be just tender – and if necessary simmer for a little longer, keeping an eye out as they can easily overcook.

Remove the pears from the juice wi