Pears In Pineapple Cream

Recipe Ingredients

1 tablespoon	15ml	Lemon juice
4 tablespoons	60ml	Firm pears (large)
4		Crystallized ginger - cut in halves
2 tablespoons	30ml	Butter
1 tablespoon	15ml	Light-brown sugar
2/3 cup	157ml	Pineapple juice
2/3 cup	157ml	Whipping cream
		Fresh bay leaves
		Toasted flaked almonds

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 375F. (190C.). Lightly grease a shallow baking dish.

Fill a bowl with cold water and add lemon juice. Peel pears and cut in half. Cut away stems and remove cores with a teaspoon. Drop prepared pears in lemon water.

Pat pears dry on paper towels. Place a piece of crystallized ginger into "well" of each pear half. Arrange pears, cut-sides down, in greased dish.

Put butter, brown sugar and pineapple juice into a saucepan and heat gently to dissolve sugar. Add whipping cream and boil 5 minutes. Pour sauce over pears.

Cover and bake in preheat oven 1 hour or until pears are tender and sauce has thickened. Baste pears with sauce several times during baking.

Place pears on a warm serving plate and spoon sauce over pears. Arrange bay leaves to resemble pear leaves and garnish with almonds. Serve hot.

Source:
Cooking Light, April 1995, page 114

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