Pears Curacao - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sugar
8 fresh pears, halved and cored
1/2 cup Curacao (or similar liqueur)
1/2 cup black currant jam
1 cup whipping cream
1 pinch sugar

Preparation

Cook the water, vanilla and 1 cup sugar until the sugar dissolves.
Poach the pears in this syrup until soft; remove the pears.
Add the Curacao to the syrup and cook until thick.
Put pear halves on a serving platter or on 8 individual serving dishes and fill the centers with 1/2 Tbs jam per pear half.
Pour the syrup over them.
Whip the cream until stiff, beat in the pinch of sugar, and spoon over the pears.