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By Peter Gordon
Published 2005
A handy tool to have for this dessert is a small gas burner like the ones they use in restaurants to caramelize crème brûlée – but I wont assume you have one, in which case you’ll have to use the grill on your oven, as I did.
When poaching soft fruit like peaches it’s important to have enough liquid to keep them suspended above the bottom of the pot, as they can squash a bit once they soften up from cooking. So find a suitable pot – you need them to be able to just fit in it in one