Baked Pears With Sherry Custard Sauce & Ama Recipe
Yield: 4 ServingsRecipe by luhu.jp
Ingredients:
1/3 cup: golden raisins,
1/3 cup: fruity, slightly sweet wine
Directions:
: such as Riesling or
: Gewurztraminer
8 medium-tart baking pears, --
: peeled and cored
1/2 c toasted pine nuts
1/3 c melted unsalted butter
1/2 c light-brown sugar
1/2 c dry white wine
1 ts grated lemon zest
: Sherry Custard Sauce (recipe
: follows)
: Amaretti Cookies, crushed
: (recipe follows)
: Garnish:
8 lg mint sprigs, -- if desired.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. In a small saucepan, combine the
raisins and wine and bring to a simmer. Remove from the heat and let
stand 15 minutes to allow the raisins to plump. Strain the raisins
and drain well, reserving any liquid. Place the pears in a baking
dish just large enough to hold them. Combine the raisins with the
pine nuts and fill the cavities of the pears. Put the butter, brown
sugar, white wine, lemon zest and the reserved raisin liquid in the
saucepan and simmer to melt the sugar, approximately 2 minutes.
Drizzle over the pears. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until the pears
are tender when pierced with a toothpick, basting occasionally with
the juices. Serve the warm pears in shallow wide-rimmed bowls. Spoon
the Sherry Custard Sauce around and sprinkle with crushed Amaretti
Cookies. Garnish with the mint sprigs, if desired.
Yield: 8 servings
Recipe By :COOKS CHOICE SHOW #CH1215
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:45:37
~0400
Source from luhu.jp
: Gewurztraminer
8 medium-tart baking pears, --
: peeled and cored
1/2 c toasted pine nuts
1/3 c melted unsalted butter
1/2 c light-brown sugar
1/2 c dry white wine
1 ts grated lemon zest
: Sherry Custard Sauce (recipe
: follows)
: Amaretti Cookies, crushed
: (recipe follows)
: Garnish:
8 lg mint sprigs, -- if desired.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. In a small saucepan, combine the
raisins and wine and bring to a simmer. Remove from the heat and let
stand 15 minutes to allow the raisins to plump. Strain the raisins
and drain well, reserving any liquid. Place the pears in a baking
dish just large enough to hold them. Combine the raisins with the
pine nuts and fill the cavities of the pears. Put the butter, brown
sugar, white wine, lemon zest and the reserved raisin liquid in the
saucepan and simmer to melt the sugar, approximately 2 minutes.
Drizzle over the pears. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until the pears
are tender when pierced with a toothpick, basting occasionally with
the juices. Serve the warm pears in shallow wide-rimmed bowls. Spoon
the Sherry Custard Sauce around and sprinkle with crushed Amaretti
Cookies. Garnish with the mint sprigs, if desired.
Yield: 8 servings
Recipe By :COOKS CHOICE SHOW #CH1215
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:45:37
~0400
Source from luhu.jp