Pears Melba

Main Ingredient: Pear
Course: Various Desserts
Yield:

Pears Melba ingredients

4 Firm ripe pears, preferably
-Bosc
1⁄2 c Sugar
1⁄2 c water
1 Strip lemon peel
1 t vanilla
1⁄2 c Sweet wine (Marsala or
-Madeira)
1⁄2 c Dry wine
1 part Ice cream (i.e. vanilla,
-toasted almond, pear)
1 part Raspberries, pureed with 2
-tablespoons sugar

Cooking Pears Melba

1. Peeli, core and halve pears.
2. Combine sugar, water, lemon peel, vanilla and wines and bring to a boil.
3. Boil 3 minutes.
4. Add pears and slowly poach in the sauce until tender and infused with sauce.
5. Turn pears occasionally with tongs.
6. Remove from sauce.
7. Reducei sauce until very syrupy.
8. Cool. Place a spoonful of sauce in the bottom of an individual serving bowl.
9. Place a 2-ounce scoop of ice cream on the sauce and top with the poached pear.
10. Drizzle with the pureed raspberries and serve.
11. Serves 8. PER SERVING: 225 calories, 2 g protein, 36 g carbohydrate, 6 g fat (4 g saturated), 22 mg cholesterol, 29 mg sodium, 4 g fiber.
12. Heidy Haughy Cusik writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, 11/25/91.