Poached Pears With Vanilla Sauce

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serves/makes:

ready in:
30-60 minutes

ingredients

3 cups water
2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract
1 cup sugar
4 ripe pears, peeled, sliced in half and cored

directions

Combine water, vanilla and sugar in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Add pears and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove fruit and set it aside to cool.

Heat the syrup until it thickens slightly. Place fruit in dessert bowls and pour syrup over top of fruit.