1 (750ml) bottle vin santo, or sweet wine
1½ cups sugar
1 large cinnamon stick
6 whole cloves
1 vanilla bean
1 orange, zest julienned
1 lemon, zest julienned
10 whole Bosc pears
1½ cups large dried figs
1½ cups large dried apricots
¾ cup large dried pitted prunes
Place the vin santo, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, vanilla bean, and zests in a large shallow saucepan with 2 cups of water. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes.
Peel the pears, leaving the stems intact, and scoop out the seeds from the bottom with an apple corer or melon baler. Lay half the pears on their sides in the poaching liquid and simmer for 20 minutes. Carefully turning the pears once with a spoon. Remove with a slotted spoon. Poach the remaining pears in the same liquid. Snip off the hard stems from the figs with scissors. Add the figs, apricots, prunes, and the first batch of poached pears and simmer 5 to 10 more minutes, until the pears and the dried fruit are tender.
Chill the pears, dried fruit, zests, and poaching liquid. Remove the cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla bean before serving if you like.
Tags: Desserts, kosher for passover recipes, Passover Recipes, recipes for passover
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