el_staplador: A yellow bird is depicted eating grapes in a stained-glass window (food)
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This is a good thing to do with those pears that refuse to ripen. It's a nice comforting autumn/winter sort of pudding with some interesting textures: it's a little bit crisp on the top, and gorgeously fudgy and sticky around the pears. It would probably work well with vanilla ice cream, but we didn't have any.



3-5 pears (depends on the size of your pears and on the size of your dish)

4oz caster sugar
4oz butter (or equivalent)
2 eggs
4oz self-raising flour
1tbsp cocoa powder
pinch salt

Preheat oven to about 200degC.

Grease an oven-proof dish. Peel, quarter and core the pears and place them in a single layer over the bottom of the dish.

Dump all the ingredients for the sponge into a mixing bowl in the order they're listed. Beat until smooth. (Alternatively - which might be slightly less messy - begin by creaming the sugar and butter together, then add the eggs gradually, then the flour and cocoa. But it's a pudding.) If it looks a bit too thick you can add some milk to loosen it.

Spoon the mixture over the pears, making sure they're all covered.

Bake for about 25 minutes.


This quantity serves four, or five if you're being stingy.

Date: Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 11:16 pm (UTC)
st_aurafina: A shiny green chilli (Food: Green Chilli)
From: [personal profile] st_aurafina
Omg this sounds amazing... it's summer here so no probs on the pears ripening, but I'm bookmarking this for when cooler weather arrives. Thank you.

Date: Thursday, November 30th, 2017 03:58 am (UTC)
moetushie: Beaton cartoon - a sexy revolution. (Default)
From: [personal profile] moetushie
That sounds so good. *___*

Baked pears sound great right now, and I wouldn't have thought combine them with chocolate. Chocolate makes everything better.

Date: Thursday, November 30th, 2017 11:00 am (UTC)
miss_s_b: River Song and The Eleventh Doctor have each other's back (Default)
From: [personal profile] miss_s_b
This sounds like something that could be amended for non-chocolatey people... *plots*

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