Cured Pork Chops with Vanilla and Stone Fruit (Crowd Cow)

Ingredients

• 2 lbs. boneless or bone-in pork chops
• 1 ½ cups boiling water
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla
• ¼ cup honey
• ¼ cup kosher or sea salt (not fine table salt)
• 2 Tbls. cracked black pepper
• 2-inch piece of vanilla bean, split down the center (optional but adds flavor)
• 4 peaches or equivalent amount of apricots or cherries
• 2-3 cloves garlic
• ½ cup white wine or stock
• 1 cup pork or chicken stock
• 1 Tbls. honey
• 1 Tbls. peach, apricot, or cherry jam to match your fruit
• Sea salt and freshly cracked blacked pepper
• 2 Tbsp. cold unsalted butter (optional)