A favorite fall dessert or breakfast fruit when pears are in season. This is a Better Homes and Garden Cookbook recipe, and the only liberty I take at times is to replace part or all of the sugar with Splenda (depending on guests and their diet requirements.) I often double the recipe (and 4 x the poaching liquid) and store pears in pint mason jars in the fridge - they’ll last several weeks and make a nice breakfast fruit. As a dessert, you can make them dinner show-stoppers by zigzagging chocolate on top - sorry I didn't have any on hand for the photo shoot! Bosc pears are my favorite in this easy but elegant fruit dish, and cooking apples can also be subbed for the pears.