Credit: Excerpted from The Lake Michigan Cottage Cookbook © by Amelia Levin. Used with permission from Storey Publishing.
This recipe is from Janice Thomas of Savory Spoon Cooking School.
It’s not hard to find beautiful pears in Door County during the late summer and fall, and cherries can be found year-round preserved in jars with their juices.
Janice Thomas developed this recipe as a way to use those juices from a jar of unsweetened cherries without having to waste a drop. For more cherry flavor, throw in some of the cherries during the last few minutes of poaching the pears.