Poached Pears with Muddled Wine

Ingredients:
4 ripe pears
1 bottle Pinot Noir
1 lemon
1 cup rasberries
1 2 inch strip of vanilla
3 full cloves all spice
1 bay leaf
1 tsp cinnamon (or 1 small stick)

Directions:

1.Wash and core pears.  A melon-baller works best for this step.

 2. Peel Pears

 

3.  Soak pears in a pitcher with cold water and juice from 1 half of a lemon.

4. While the pears soak, prepare cooking liquid by heating the bottle of wine,the spices, the zest of 1/2 lemon, the juice of 1 cup raspberries to a simmer.  Add pears.
 

5. Simmer until pears are easily pierced with a thin knife.

6.  Allow pears to cool in cooking liquid (overnight is best)

 7.  Reheat wine and serve pears with vanilla ice cream.