Maple Baked Winter Fruits - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 None orange
1 cup dry white wine
3 None red apples
3 None pears
2 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
1 lb rhubarb, trimmed and cut into 5-inch lengths
1 tub (8 oz) mascarpone cheese or creme fraIche

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350\u00b0F.
Using a vegetable peeler, remove peel from orange in one long strip, if possible. Squeeze juice from orange. Place juice, peel and wine in a large shallow baking dish.
Halve apples crosswise; trim the bottoms slightly to give them a flat surface to sit on. Halve the pears lengthwise; trim the rounded skin sides slightly, to give them a flat surface to sit on. Place apples and pears in baking dish, trimmed-side down.
Rub softened butter generously over apples and pears; drizzle with maple syrup. Cover dish with foil. Bake 20 mins. Add rhubarb. Bake, covered, a further 10 mins. Remove foil; bake a further 5 mins or until all fruit is tender.
Combine mascarpone with 2 tbsp of the cooking liquid from the baked fruit.
Serve baked fruit with mascarpone.