Our very small dinner club had Korea as its country last night. I was assigned dessert and I found my choices consistently, through Google, were either fried little rice/sweet rice cake-y things or Baesook/ Cooked Asian Pear with Peppercorn, so I made that. It was really good. Our COSTCO had Asian Pears this week- 8 for about $7 so I was stoked.
Easy Recipe:
2 Asian Pears, 20 Peppercorns, 2 tablespoons sugar and 4 cups H2O and Pine Nuts.
Cut into quarters and core the pear. Stick 3 peppercorns along the outside of each piece(it looked like buttons on a shirt.) Combine H2O, sugar and pears in sauce pan, bring to boil. Reduce heat and cook on low 5 minutes. (I was doing 7 pears in a large pot and this took about 45 minutes to achieve.) Then skins were then loosened, so I peeled them off and stuck the cooked pears in the icebox to get cold. Toasted up some Pine nuts to sprinkle on top of the cold pears. Not one was left. It was good.
aloha, beans roast beans to kona to email farmers of Pure Kona
On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:44:49 -1000, [email hidden] wrote:
snippady doo dau
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Easy Recipe:
2 Asian Pears, 20 Peppercorns, 2 tablespoons sugar and 4 cups H2O and Pine Nuts.
Cut into quarters and core the pear. Stick 3 peppercorns along the outside of each piece(it looked like buttons on a shirt.) Combine H2O, sugar and pears in sauce pan, bring to boil. Reduce heat and cook on low 5 minutes. (I was doing 7 pears in a large pot and this took about 45 minutes to achieve.) Then skins were then loosened, so I peeled them off and stuck the cooked pears in the icebox to get cold. Toasted up some Pine nuts to sprinkle on top of the cold pears. Not one was left. It was good.
aloha, beans roast beans to kona to email farmers of Pure Kona
Our very small dinner club had Korea as its country last night. I was assigned dessert and I found my choices consistently, through Google, were either fried little rice/sweet rice cake-y things or Baesook/ Cooked Asian Pear with Peppercorn, so I made that. It was really good. Our COSTCO had Asian Pears this week- 8 for about $7 so I was stoked.
Easy Recipe:
2 Asian Pears, 20 Peppercorns, 2 tablespoons sugar and 4 cups H2O and Pine Nuts.
Cut into quarters and core the pear. Stick 3 peppercorns along the outside of each piece(it looked like buttons on a shirt.) Combine H2O, sugar and pears in sauce pan, bring to boil. Reduce heat and cook on low 5 minutes. (I was doing 7 pears in a large pot and this took about 45 minutes to achieve.) Then skins were then loosened, so I peeled them off and stuck the cooked pears in the icebox to get cold. Toasted up some Pine nuts to sprinkle on top of the cold pears. Not one was left. It was good.
aloha, beans roast beans to kona to email farmers of Pure Kona
It sounds delicious. I wonder if, instead of water, white wine or some kind of fruit juice would be an improvement?
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:51:25 GMT, Puester <[email hidden]>
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It sounds delicious. I wonder if, instead of water, white wine or some kind of fruit juice would be an improvement?
gloria p
I bet it would Gloria. I just followed the recipe to be authentic to the country. But Asian pears cooked for a while do have the wonderful "pear" texture. It was fun to do
Let me know if you try otherwise.
I thought the sugar to H2O was interesting, but wine might be better.
aloha, cea roast beans to kona to email farmers of Pure Kona
On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:44:49 -1000, [email hidden] wrote:
snippady doo dau
Quoted message said:
Easy Recipe:
2 Asian Pears, 20 Peppercorns, 2 tablespoons sugar and 4 cups H2O and Pine Nuts.
Cut into quarters and core the pear. Stick 3 peppercorns along the outside of each piece(it looked like buttons on a shirt.) Combine H2O, sugar and pears in sauce pan, bring to boil. Reduce heat and cook on low 5 minutes. (I was doing 7 pears in a large pot and this took about 45 minutes to achieve.) Then skins were then loosened, so I peeled them off and stuck the cooked pears in the icebox to get cold. Toasted up some Pine nuts to sprinkle on top of the cold pears. Not one was left. It was good.
aloha, beans roast beans to kona to email farmers of Pure Kona
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:51:25 GMT, Puester <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
[email hidden] wrote:
Quoted message said:
It sounds delicious. I wonder if, instead of water, white wine or some kind of fruit juice would be an improvement?
Quoted message said:
gloria p
I bet it would Gloria. I just followed the recipe to be authentic to the country. But Asian pears cooked for a while do have the wonderful "pear" texture. It was fun to do
Let me know if you try otherwise.
I thought the sugar to H2O was interesting, but wine might be better.
aloha, cea roast beans to kona to email farmers of Pure Kona
the pear works well with other citrus componets, maybe try substituting water with orange juice and then use it as a topping
Our very small dinner club had Korea as its country last night. I was assigned dessert and I found my choices consistently, through Google, were either fried little rice/sweet rice cake-y things or Baesook/ Cooked Asian Pear with Peppercorn, so I made that. It was really good. Our COSTCO had Asian Pears this week- 8 for about $7 so I was stoked. Easy Recipe:
2 Asian Pears, 20 Peppercorns, 2 tablespoons sugar and 4 cups H2O and Pine Nuts.
Cut into quarters and core the pear. Stick 3 peppercorns along the outside of each piece(it looked like buttons on a shirt.) Combine H2O, sugar and pears in sauce pan, bring to boil. Reduce heat and cook on low 5 minutes. (I was doing 7 pears in a large pot and this took about 45 minutes to achieve.) Then skins were then loosened, so I peeled them off and stuck the cooked pears in the icebox to get cold. Toasted up some Pine nuts to sprinkle on top of the cold pears. Not one was left. It was good.
aloha, beans roast beans to kona to email farmers of Pure Kona
It sounds delicious. I wonder if, instead of water, white wine or some kind of fruit juice would be an improvement?
gloria p
Hmmm, you might be on to something there, Gloria. If you want a white wine, I'd go for a Riesling, but isn't there a liqueur that might work as well? Frangelica, Grand Marnier, Chambord, Cointreau or even Amaretto. Oh, how about maybe even port or brandy?
Our very small dinner club had Korea as its country last night. I was assigned dessert and I found my choices consistently, through Google, were either fried little rice/sweet rice cake-y things or Baesook/ Cooked Asian Pear with Peppercorn, so I made that. It was really good. Our COSTCO had Asian Pears this week- 8 for about $7 so I was stoked.
Easy Recipe:
2 Asian Pears, 20 Peppercorns, 2 tablespoons sugar and 4 cups H2O and Pine Nuts.
Cut into quarters and core the pear. Stick 3 peppercorns along the outside of each piece(it looked like buttons on a shirt.) Combine H2O, sugar and pears in sauce pan, bring to boil. Reduce heat and cook on low 5 minutes. (I was doing 7 pears in a large pot and this took about 45 minutes to achieve.) Then skins were then loosened, so I peeled them off and stuck the cooked pears in the icebox to get cold. Toasted up some Pine nuts to sprinkle on top of the cold pears. Not one was left. It was good.
aloha, beans roast beans to kona to email farmers of Pure Kona
It sounds delicious. I wonder if, instead of water, white wine or some kind of fruit juice would be an improvement?
It sounds delicious. I wonder if, instead of water, white wine or some kind of fruit juice would be an improvement?
Hmmm, you might be on to something there, Gloria. If you want a white wine, I'd go for a Riesling, but isn't there a liqueur that might work as well? Frangelica, Grand Marnier, Chambord, Cointreau or even Amaretto. Oh, how about maybe even port or brandy?
A few days ago I made impromptu pear-Amaretto soufflés for dessert. The flavor combination worked quite well. In the case of the poached Asian pears, I might try ginger syrup (as already mentioned), vanilla syrup, or a light rosemary or lavender syrup -- but that's only for variety's sake; I think it would be excellent exactly as posted.
