Drunk pear

Steps

• 1. I will show you a rich version of this dessert but if you want you can compress the number of ingredients into a mini list of 2-3 ones and still it will be delicious, believe me. So, what you need is wine. How else we can make a pear drunk? Red one fits great (up to your taste). Then cranberry, lemon and orange – they will give the needed slightly sour taste and aroma. A contrast for them are sugar and vanilla sugar. And we finish with spices of cinnamon and cloves. A list of spices can be continued infinitely - anise, peppercorns, vanilla, dried zest and everything else that comes to mind.
• 2. Be braver preparing suitable components, nothing bad will happen. And if you have only a pear – it is a good idea to cook it in a sugar syrup. In this case, asceticism does not mean a bad result, that is what makes this dessert so good.
  
• 3. Everything is prepared pretty simple and fast – put all ingredients into a casserole . It is advisable to choose a size in which exactly the right amount of pears will fit.
  
• 4. Collect sugar, cinnamon, cloves, lemon and orange zest in a casserole. Add there an orange juice as well (if you like sour – add a lemon juice). Then cranberry and wine. If you do not have much wine - dilute with water, approximately 2 to 1 (wine / water).
  
• 5. Mix it well and put on the plate. It is probably may be similar with mulled wine or it is exactly the mulled wine, so we also have a good hot winter drink as a bonus to a dessert.
  
• 6. While syrup is heating, prepare a punch. It is easy – cut off the bottom, so that a pear will stay fixed on the plate. If you plan to serve it other way – maybe, then you do not need to do this. It is better to take more firmly pears.
  
• 7. The most important is to get rid of pear pits – you may use both special instruments and a thin knife. You should cut it off below from the whole pear. You will feel yourself a professional making the same short work of the second or third pear.
  
• 8. Finally – peel.
  
• 9. While you were busy with pears, the syrup is heated well and ready to accept pears. Put them carefully in a syrup and reduce fire to medium – we do need it to boil. Cook pears for 30-40 minutes, it depends on a sort and how soft you want the dessert to be.
  
• 10. Check the preparation with a method of a knife immersion in the body of a pear. If it gets into easily – then the pear is prepared (soft).
  
• 11. While cooking, pears are well painted in a juicy wine color. If you like brighter – add more cranberry and wine as they are nature food dyes here.
  
• 12. Put prepared pears on plates and serve with an ice cream, ricotta and other cream-cheese-cottage cheese variations. The pears’ taste is very soft, rich with spices and wine. Nobody will stay indifferent.
  
• 13. Alternative way of serving drunk pear is to cut the pear for plates.