Poached pears with ginger wine and fresh walnuts

Name: Poached pears with ginger wine and fresh walnuts
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: About 6 tbsp brown sugar; About 12 fresh walnuts, unshelled; 4–12 hard pears, depending on size; piece of fresh root ginger, the size of a blackbird’s egg, roughly crushed; 150 ml ginger wine

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Cook’s Year in a Welsh Farmhouse

By Elisabeth Luard

Published 2011

About

If your pears are still unripe and too hard to eat raw, poach them in a sugar syrup flavoured with ginger.

Ingredients

4–12 hard pears, depending on size
About 12 fresh walnuts, unshelled
piece of fresh root ginger

Dessert
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Carefully skin the pears, halve and core them, then set aside.

Crack the walnuts, extract the two halves of the nut and peel off the bitter outer skin. Set aside.

Simmer the ginger in a mugful (about 300 ml) of water in a roomy pan for about 20 minutes, till the water is well flavou