Creator:

John@Le Bistro (Newport RI)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 TB fresh lemon juice
• 1 inch piece of vanilla bean
• 6 medium pears, ripe, but firm, peeled, cored, and quartered
• 1 egg white, beaten
• 2 TB Eau de Vie de Poire( optional)

Recipe:

1. Boil sugar with 2 cups water until dissolved, add lemon juice
2. Poach pears in this liquid for about 10 minutes- until slightly soft
3. Remove pears and puree
4. Boil down liquid until it measures 1 cup
5. Discard vanilla bean
6. Combine boiled down poaching syrup and pear puree and cool
7. Add beaten egg white and freeze as usual ( Donvier ice cream maker)
8. Add Poire just before mixture is completly frozen