Poached pears in spicy syrup

Ingredients

• 4 firm pears

• spicy syrup

• 25 g of fresh ginger
• 1 vanilla pod
• 1/4 grated tonka bean
• 1 stick of cinnamon
• 125 g of powdered sugar

• the grated zest of 1 organic orange

Preparation

1. Peel the pears, keeping the stems.

2. Prepare the syrup. Peel the ginger, split the vanilla pod in two lengthwise and scrape out the seeds with the blade of a knife.

3. In a saucepan, mix all the syrup ingredients with 25 cl of water then bring to the boil until the sugar is dissolved.

4. Gently immerse the whole pears in the syrup and let them cook for 10 minutes at a low simmer.

5. Let the pears cool for about 1 hour in the syrup.

6. Drain them and reserve them in the refrigerator.

7. Filter the syrup with a sieve, then reduce it over high heat in a saucepan, bringing it to a boil at 115-116°C. Let it cool, it will have the consistency of liquid honey.

8. Serve the pears very cool with a little syrup and crisp cigarettes or speculoos.