Interesting Asian Pear Recpe

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
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That's a keeper. Thanks

koko
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"There is no love more sincere than the love of food"
George Bernard Shaw

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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

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:51:25 GMT, Puester <[email hidden]>

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[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?

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
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farmers of Pure Kona

koko said:

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

That's a keeper. Thanks

koko
---
http://www.kokoscorner.typepad.com
updated 9/6

"There is no love more sincere than the love of food"
George Bernard Shaw

It was really good.

Thanks
aloha,
Cea
roast beans to kona to email
farmers of Pure Kona

Quoted message said:

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

Puester said:

Quoted message said:

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?

I'm busy thinking..... <g>

kili

Puester said:

Quoted message said:

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

It's often simmered in ginger-flavoured syrup.

kili said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Cooked Asian Pear with Peppercorn

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.

Thanks for the recipe, beans!

Bob