Name: Pears with Goat’s Milk Brie & Red Wine Jelly
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 (750-ml) bottle of red wine; 4 cloves; 1¼ cups (250 g) sugar; 6 to 8 cardamom pods; 3 star anise; 4 Comice pears, peeled and halved, with the stems left on; 2 cinnamon sticks; 6 sheets gelatin, or 2 tbsp unflavored powdered gelatin; 10 oz (300 g) goat’s milk brie; ¼ cup (85 g) honey

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home Made Winter

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2012

About

Of course, instead of goat’s milk brie you may use regular brie, or goat cheese. Even blue cheese! Any of those would be good here.

Ingredients

1 (750-ml) bottle of red wine
1¼ cups (250

Method

In a large saucepan over very low heat, combine the red wine, sugar, cloves, star anise, cardamom, and cinnamon sticks. Add the pears and poach them until they are soft but still hold their shape. Take them out of the syrup with a slotted spoon and let them cool.

Continue to boil the cooking liquid until it’s reduced by half.

Reserve 2 cups (500 ml) of the syrup in a pitcher and