Severed Ears a la Mode
Dried pears poached in spiced wine and served with ice cream transforms into bloody Severed Ears a la Mode...perfect for Halloween.
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Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 10 dried pears
- 2 cups wine (half red wine and half white wine)
- ½ cup orange juice and a few strips of orange peel
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 4-5 whole cloves
- 1 quart vanilla ice cream
- 1 cup granola (optional)
Instructions
- Use a 1/4 teaspoon to round out the stem end of each pear to create an earlobe. Use the small teaspoon again to remove a small amount of the pear off center to where the seeds of the pear were removed to make a ear canal. Don't worry if its not too deep, after the fruit soaks for a while, the indentation will be pronounced or you can press it in a bit to make it more obvious. Use a paring knife to make a curved cut down one side of pear to remove some of the dried pear skin to create the severed side of the ear. Place prepared ears into a shallow pan.
- In a small sauce pan, add wine, sugar, orange juice and peel, cinnamon sticks and cloves and heat until the sugar is dissolved.
- Add wine mixture to the pears and refrigerate for about 2-3 hours. The longer it sits the pears will take up the red wine and get more red, so refrigerate until desired hue and when the fruit is rehydrated and soft.
- Remove pears from the pan and strain wine mixture with a fine mesh strainer into a small sauce pan. Discard spices and orange peel. Heat wine mixture and reduce until a syrup forms. Add pears into the warm syrup to heat through and then serve with a scoop of ice cream and drizzle with additional syrup and top with granola.
