Baked Pears - Country Living Recipe
Yield: 6 servingsRecipe by luhu.jp
Ingredients:
1: 750-ml bottle dry red wine,
-stems,
1/2 cup: Sugar,
1/2 cup: Mascarpone cheese, see Note
1/2 t: Whole cloves, crushed
1 T: Orange-flavored liqueur,
6: Ripe Bartlett pears with,
Directions:
1. In 3-quart saucepan, heat wine, sugar, and cloves to boiling,
stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, core and seed pears from bottom
end. Peel, leaving pears whole with stems intact.
2. Heat oven to 400F. Place pears upright in 13 by 9-inch baking
dish. Pour wine mixture over pears and bake 1 hour or until tender,
basting pears with wine mixture about every 10 minutes.
3. With slotted spoon, transfer pears to 6 rimmed dessert plates.
Strain syrup into glass measuring cup. If necessary, add water or
return to saucepan and boil rapidly until syrup measures 1/2 cup.
4. Spoon syrup over pears. If desired, stir liqueur into mascarpone.
Divide mascarpone among dessert plates and serve pears warm.
Note: If mascarpone is unavailable in your supermarket, fold 1/4 C
plain yogurt into one 3-oz package cream cheese, softened.
Country Living/Sept/94 Scanned & fixed by Di Pahl &
Submitted By DIANE PAHL On 10-02-94
Source from luhu.jp
stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, core and seed pears from bottom
end. Peel, leaving pears whole with stems intact.
2. Heat oven to 400F. Place pears upright in 13 by 9-inch baking
dish. Pour wine mixture over pears and bake 1 hour or until tender,
basting pears with wine mixture about every 10 minutes.
3. With slotted spoon, transfer pears to 6 rimmed dessert plates.
Strain syrup into glass measuring cup. If necessary, add water or
return to saucepan and boil rapidly until syrup measures 1/2 cup.
4. Spoon syrup over pears. If desired, stir liqueur into mascarpone.
Divide mascarpone among dessert plates and serve pears warm.
Note: If mascarpone is unavailable in your supermarket, fold 1/4 C
plain yogurt into one 3-oz package cream cheese, softened.
Country Living/Sept/94 Scanned & fixed by Di Pahl &
Submitted By DIANE PAHL On 10-02-94
Source from luhu.jp