Name: Spiced Poached Pear and Blackberry Millefeuille
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 2025-06-08 00:00:00
Ingredients: 320g all-butter puff pastry sheet (see Eric’s Tips); Icing sugar to dust; 100g blackberries; For the pears; 100ml eau de vie poire williams (or pear juice); 100g golden caster sugar; 2 cinnamon sticks; 3 star anise; 3 cloves; Finely grated zest 1 lemon; 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped; 2 pears (williams or conference work well), peeled, halved and cored; For the crème mousseline; 250ml whole milk; 2 tsp vanilla paste (ideally Bourbon vanilla paste); 2 medium egg yolks; 60g golden caster sugar; 25g cornflour; 125g unsalted butter, softened

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