Poached Pears with Candy Cap Syrup

Name: Poached Pears with Candy Cap Syrup
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ cup granulated sugar; ⅓ cup sweet white wine; 1 cup apple cider; 2 slightly underripe Bosc pears; ⅓ cup dried candy cap mushrooms; 1 cinnamon stick; 2 sprigs thyme

Preparation info

4
Servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fantastic Fungi

By Eugenia Bone

Published 2022

About

This is an easy, flexible desert that you can also make with dried fairy clubs (Clavariadelphus truncatus). I sometimes add more sugar if the candy caps aren’t as sweet as I’d like, so before reducing the sauce, give it a taste and adjust the sweetness. Remember, the sugar will become more concentrated as the sauce reduces.

Ingredients

2 slightly underripe Bosc pears
1 cup apple cider
⅓ cup swe

Americas
United States
Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegan
New York

Method

Peel and halve the pears. Core the pears (see note). Place the pears in a low pot with a fitted cover.

Combine the cider, wine, and sugar in a small pot and heat over medium heat until the sugar dissolves.

Add the sugar water to the pears, then add the thyme, cinnamon, and candy caps. Cover and poach over medium heat for 10 minutes, u