Warm Pear Charlotte

The name charlotte is, like a lot of traditional dessert names, a matter of dispute. There is some speculation that the dessert was named for Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III of England, since charlottes appear during his reign at the end of the 18th century. But charlottes are probably older than that.

Warm charlottes, actually a form of bread pudding filled with fruit, are characteristically made in a fez-shaped metal mold that is first lin