Poached Pears Recipe

2 pears (or in our case 5 tiny pears)
400ml red wine (or enough to well cover the pears)
100g sugar (or more or less if you used more or less wine)
2 cloves
2 by leaves

Peel the pears and cut in the quarters removing the core
Put in the a pan with the wine and sugar and simmer for 15 mins.
Test the pears and if still hard keep cooking until soft.
Once cooked remove the pears and reduce the wine mixture down to a syrup.
Serve the syrup over the pears, ideally with ice cream

The pears I used here came of our tree some weeks ago and Doug refrigerated as we read that is how you are meant to ripen them. We may have left a little long as they had started to dry out on the thin bit. But they are pretty tasty and cook like this very well.