Brown Sugar Meringue, Roasted Pear and Salted Caramel Sauce

Name: Brown Sugar Meringue, Roasted Pear and Salted Caramel Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 25 g/1 oz salted butter; 55 g/2 oz/¼ cup light brown soft sugar, sifted to remove hard lumps; 2 ripe pears, peeled, halved and cored; 50 ml/1¾ fl oz/3½ tbsp double (heavy) cream; 55 g/2 oz/⅓ cup caster (superfine) sugar; 1 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar; 2 large egg whites; 25 g/1 oz unsalted butter, melted; 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp dark brown muscovado sugar; 40 g/1½ oz/⅓ cup hazelnuts, skins off (see hack); 100 ml/3½ fl oz/scant ½ cup double (heavy) cream

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom

By Prue Leith

Published 2024

About

A melon baller makes a great pear corer – halve your ripe pears and use it to scoop out the seeded bit from the core. If you don’t have a melon baller, a teaspoon will do.

Ingredients

2 ripe pears, peeled, halved and cored
25 g/1 oz unsalted butter, melted

Dessert
Cake
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Heat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/400°F/Gas 4.
Arrange the pear halves on a baking tray lined with baking parchment. Brush with the melted butter and sprinkle with the 1 tablespoon of caster (superfine) sugar.