Poires Belle Helene (Poached pears with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream)

Course Desserts Prep Time 1-2h Total Time 10 to 30m

Ingredients in this Recipe

100g/3½oz organic caster sugar
2 organic comice pears
2 vanilla pods, seeds scraped out
200ml/7¼fl oz organic full fat milk
250ml/8¾fl oz double cream
300g/10½oz chocolate (70 per cent cocoa solids), chopped into small pieces
4 organic free range eggs yolks
750ml/1 pint and 7fl oz stock syrup (made from 375g/13oz sugar and 375ml/13fl oz water boiled together until the sugar dissolves with vanilla extract, cardamom pods and bay leaves, to taste)

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