Name: Pears with Brown Sugar and Cream
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 25 g/1 oz butter; 1.5 dl/¼ pint double cream; 2–3 tablespoons demerara sugar; 4 firm dessert pears

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Calendar Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1977

About

Cold cream poured over a hot dessert, just before serving, is a marvellous combination. It’s particularly good over hot baked fruits such as peaches, apricots, bananas or pears.

Ingredients

4 firm dessert pears
2–3 tablespoons demerara sugar
25 g/

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Peel the pears, leaving them whole. Then slice in half lengthways and using a teaspoon scoop out the cores. Arrange the pears in a single layer in a buttered baking dish. Sprinkle liberally with the demerara sugar and add the butter cut in small pieces. Cover with a buttered paper,

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