Recipe - Peaches Poached In Red Wine With Pepper

1 tablespoon Black peppercorns
1 cup Port wine
Peel of One half lemon
1 Vanilla bean
6 Bay leaves
One half Bottle red wine cote du
rhone or pinot noir
2 One half tablespoon Honey
6 Ripe peaches

1. Place the peppercorns in a square of cheesecloth and the tie securely
with string. In a large saucepan, combine the port, lemon peel, vanilla
bean, bay leaves, wine, pepper sachet and bring to a boil. Stir in the
honey and remove the saucepan from the heat. Add more honey if necessary.
Cover the saucepan and set aside.

2. Half fill large saucepan with water and bring to a boil. Plunge peaches
into boiling water and let them sit there for one to two minutes, then
rinse them under cold water and peel them. Place them in the warm wine over
medium heat and bring to simmer. Simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat,
cover and cool.

3. Remove fruit from syrup and place it in shallow bowl. Pick out bay
leaves and stick them in fruit at stem where leaves would be. Cut the
vanilla bean into six segments and place one in each peach to make a stem.
Set aside in a cool place, outside the refrigerator, until ready to serve.

NOTES : Adapted frin roger Verge's "Entertaining in the French Style".

Recipe by: Florence Fabricant n NY Times July 4, 1993 Posted to MCRecipe
Digest V1 #763 by Nan nbdunn@bigfoot.com on Aug 29, 1997