When dried apricots are baked with vanilla and sugar, they emerge from the oven plump, succulent, and firm. Ginger is perhaps more often paired with apricots, but vanilla is very good, too; although not sweet itself, it emphasizes that aspect of the fruit. These apricots are delicious served chilled, with a mound of Ricotta Cream Cheese or Coeur à la Crème; they can also be used in place of fresh apricots, in