BBC Food - Recipes - Poached quince and winter fruit in spiced wine

Ingredients

• 400ml/14fl oz red wine (see tip)
• 2 tsp stevia powder or 100g/3½oz caster sugar
• ½ vanilla pod
• 4 small cinnamon sticks
• 2 black pepper corns
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 cloves
• 2 thin slices lemon
• 2 thin slices orange
• 2 quince , peeled, cored and quartered
• 2 Cox’s Orange Pippin apples , peeled, cored and quartered
• 2 very ripe Conference pears , peeled, cored and quartered
• 4 Agen prunes
• handful frozen blackberries (optional)