Poached Pear with Honeycomb and Blue Cheese

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cooks Country: Modern British Rural Cooking

By Matt Tebbutt

Published 2008

  • About

The key thing here is the quality of the honeycomb and the blue cheese – get it right and they make a sublime combination.

Ingredients

  • 4 Conference pears
  • pared zest and juice of 2 lemons
  • 150 ml

Method

Peel the pears. Mix the remaining ingredients except the honeycomb and blue cheese together in a suitably sized saucepan and bring to the boil. Add the pears and simmer for 20–30 minutes, depending on the ripeness of the fruit. Chill the pears in the cooking liquor.

Remove the pears, and serve them with a chunk of gooey honeycomb and a thick slice of good-quality, room-temperature blue