Pears

• 1 Pears Poached in Spices
  Ingredients 3 PureTea Golden Flowers tea bagss 6 cloves 4 cardamom pods 1 cinnamon stick 1 vanilla pod, split lengthways 4 strips pared unwaxed lemon zest 200g/7oz golden...

• 2 Slow-roast pears with orange and aniseed
  Ingredients (Serves 4) 4 ripe pears Juice of 1 lemon 2 large oranges 2 tbsp light brown sugar 3 star anise 50g/2oz unsalted butter Double cream, crème fraîche...

• 3 Ingredient of the week: pears
  November is the time for that Autumnal favourite fruit, the pear. They have been cultivated by many peoples, including the Chinese some 3,000 years ago. Also fans were the Romans, who chose not to eat...

• 4 Britain in a bottle
  The orchard and the cordial are two quintessentially British things and the two aspects have been combined in a new range of drinks from bottlegreen. The soft drinks company have launched three new orchard-inspired...