White Wine-Poached Pears with Lemon and Herbs (Poires Pochees a la Citronelle)

Name: White Wine-Poached Pears with Lemon and Herbs (Poires Pochees a la Citronelle)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Europe, French
Ingredients: 1 bottle, dry white wine (750-ml, about 3 cups); 3/4 cups, sugar (5 1/4 ounces/149 grams); 6 , strips lemon zest from 1 lemon; 5 sprigs, fresh mint leaves; 3 sprigs, fresh thyme; 1 , vanilla bean, halved lengthwise, seed scraped out and reserved (see the illustrations); 1/2 , cinnamon stick; 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 2 tablespoons, juice from 1 lemon; 6 , ripe but firm pears (about 8 ounces each), preferably Bosc or Bartlett

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SERVES 6

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