Important! Pears should be ripe but firm and DEFINITELY tasty. Do not expect that the abundance of spices will transform cotton and tasteless pear in the miracle of cooking. Will cotton, tasteless pear with spices.)) About alcohol. Not necessary but desirable. So, pear clear tails leave - so juicy. To prepare the spices. The photo is still the Bud of a tea rose, it's so...show-off for the photo.))) It is possible and without it. But in the rose syrup I added.

Put pears in a small saucepan (you can use a slow cooker), cover with cold water so that it just lightly covers the pear (the less water, the brighter the taste), add the zest, sugar, saffron, cognac. Vanilla pod cut, clean out seeds with a knife, add them as well. The pod also put it in the water. Put on the fire. Cooking pears from 20 minutes to an hour on low heat. Water needs only to quiver, unable to gurgle. Our goal is not to cook the pears (they are in fact ready, though), but to ensure that they absorbed the color and flavor from the spices.

I cooked it 40 minutes, then turn off the fire and leave the pears to cool in the water. I can't tell You which flavor was in the apartment! A delight! For one this it was necessary to cook them! Here is how it looked an hour and a half. Remove pear syrup boil down over high heat without lid halfway. Drain.