Rick Stein served up delicious spiced poached pears with blackberries, lemon and orange on Rick Stein’s Cornwall.

The ingredients are: 1 lemon, 1 orange, 750ml red wine, 200g fresh root ginger, 1 cinnamon stick, 4 whole cloves, 5 fennel seeds, 1 fresh bay leaf, 1 sprig rosemary, 500g caster sugar, 300g frozen blackberries and 8 pears, peeled and cored leaving top stem intact.

To serve: thick custard, cream or ice cream.

See recipes by Rick in his book titled: Coast to Coast: Food from the Lands & Sea Inspired by Travels Across the World available from Amazon now.