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Recipes - Desserts

Pears in red wine

Ingredients:

500ml strong red wine, Shiraz or similar

6 firm pears

1 cinnamon stick

1 vanilla pod

200ml water

150g fructose

1/2 orange peel

Method:

1Place the Cooking Pot into the Base Unit.

2Pour the wine into the Cooking Pot and then place in the pears, making sure that they are sitting upright.

3Add the remaining ingredients, cover with the lid and cook for approximately 5 hours on the Medium setting.

4Once cooked, remove the pears and vanilla pod and set a side.

5Place the Cooking Pot onto the hob and briskly reduce by half or until you have a consistency of double cream.

(Bear in mind that the more you reduce the liquid, the sweeter it will become.)

Serve with vanilla ice cream or a blob of fromage frais.

Fruit compote

Ingredients:

275g dried mixed fruit such as apples, prunes, pears, apricots and peaches.

30g sultanas

30g raisins

20g flaked almonds

3tbsp caster sugar

625ml water

3tbsp cointreau

Method:

1Place all ingredients, except the Cointreau, in the Cooking Pot. (As the apple rings tend to float to the surface and may discolour, put them at the bottom.)

2Cook for approximately 5-7 hours on the Medium setting.

3Allow the fruit to cool before putting into a cut-glass serving dish.

4Stir in the Cointreau and serve chilled.

Rice pudding

Ingredients:

25g butter

100g pudding rice

100g sugar

1L milk

pinch of nutmeg

Method:

1Butter the sides of the Cooking Pot

2Add all the ingredients and stir well.

3Transfer the Cooking Pot into the Base Unit, cover with the Glass Lid.

4Cook for approximately 3-4 hours on the Medium setting.

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Morphy Richards SC48701 manual Recipes Desserts, Pears in red wine, Fruit compote, Rice pudding

SC48701 specifications

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