'V' Poached pears with florentine cream

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I'm sorry you didn't like it as much as you thought you would...everybody's tastes are different.

'V' Poached pears with florentine cream

I'm sorry you didn't like it as much as you thought you would...everybody's tastes are different.

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Ingredients

30 mins
4 servings
  1. 4pears
  2. 1squeeze lemon juice
  3. 1 literwater
  4. 100 grams/4oz caster sugar
  5. 200 ml/7fl oz whipping cream
  6. 100 grams/4oz florentine biscuits
  7. 100 grams4oz dark chocolate
  8. 1vanilla pod

Cooking Instructions

30 mins
  1. 1

    Peel the pears, cut them in half and with a teaspoon , scoop out the cores. Poach the pears in sugar water, with a squeeze of lemon to stop the pears going brown and a vanilla pod. .you can add a little vanilla extract instead .

  2. 2

    Slide the fruit into the syrup and leave to simmer for 15 - 20 minutes until the pears are tender to the point of a knife. Let the pears cool in their syrup for a good hour, then lift them out and put them in a shallow dish in the fridge.

  3. 3

    whip the cream softly - it should not be too stiff- then add the roughly chopped florentines.

  4. 4

    Break the dark chocolate into small squares and melt in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Just melt it down - don't stir it. As soon as the chocolate has melted, turn off the heat, and fill the pears with florentine cream. Trickle over the chocolate in thin zig zag lines, leave in the fridge for a few minutes to crisp.

  5. 5

    A Nigel Slater recipe

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Phil James
Phil James @philj88
Made this many times. I use brandy snaps or ginger nut biscuits as florentines are very expensive (about £3 for six biscuits last time I looked). It is wolfed down!!!!

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