Instructions: 1 Peel the apples and pears, leaving them whole. Arrange them in an ovenproof dish. Sprinkle 100 g of the sugar on top, add the cinnamon and a cup of water. Bake in the oven (gas mark 4 / 350F / 180C) for 20 minutes.

2 Remove from the oven. Allow the fruit to cool completely before pouring off the liquid.

3 In a large bowl, mix together the cream, yoghurts and the rest of the sugar. Pour some of this mixture into four dessert bowls, then put a pear in the middle of each, with four apple segments arranged around it.

4 Pour the rest of the cream mixture over the fruit and decorate with the flaked almonds. Serve cold.

In the Middle Ages, cinnamon was added to stews and stocks, sweet cream dishes and fricassees of poultry.

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