5 winter desserts Recipes

unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing, fresh breadcrumbs, plus extra, pears, peeled and sliced (2 medium), apples, peeled and sliced (2 medium), sugar, golden raisins, sweet dessert wine (torcolato), whole milk, vanilla extract, ground cinnamon, eggs, lemon , zest of, only, salt, sugar, seedless grapes

red grapefruit, peeled and sectioned, oranges, peeled and sectioned, fresh pineapple chunks, brown sugar, butter, softened

essencia (or other sweet dessert wine), fresh pink grapefruit juice (from about 6 grapefruits), sugar, light corn syrup, grenadine syrup, grated pink grapefruit peel, fresh or frozen cranberries, water, tawny port, sugar, ripe pears, peeled, quartered, cored, gewurztraminer or other dry white wine, sugar, light corn syrup, fresh mint leaves

mashed cooked winter squash, brown sugar, molasses, ground cinnamon, salt, ground nutmeg, ground ginger, eggs, lightly beaten, evaporated milk, unbaked pastry shell (9 inches), cream , optional