Autumn Fruits With Cinnamon Custard

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2/3 cup apple cider or 2/3 cup apple juice
• 6 seckel pears (or forelle pears, quartered lengthwise*)
• 6 lady apples, halved crosswise*
• 3 whole star anise
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 beaten egg
• 2/3 cup milk
• 4 teaspoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 dash ground cinnamon (to taste)

Recipe

• 1 in a large skillet cook apple cider over low heat just to boiling.
• 2 carefully add pears, apples, and star anise to the hot liquid.
• 3 sprinkle sugar over fruit.
• 4 cook fruit mixture, covered, for 5 minutes or until the fruit is just tender.
• 5 to serve, using a slotted spoon carefully transfer the cooked fruit to individual dessert bowls.
• 6 discard poaching liquid.
• 7 drizzle fruit with cinnamon custard.
• 8 cinnamon custard:
• 9 in a small, heavy-bottomed saucepan combine 1 beaten egg, 2/3 cup milk, and 4 teaspoons sugar. cook and stir over medium heat until mixture just coats the back of a spoon; stir in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and a dash of ground cinnamon. remove custard from heat. place saucepan in a bowl of ice water for approximately 10 minutes to stop cooking process. serve immediately or cover and chill up to 24 hours. bring just to room temperature to serve.
• 10 *note: core fruit, if desired.