Pear Or Apple Crisp

Recipe Ingredients

4		Medium-size Anjou pears - Bartlett pears or golden delicious
		Cored - and sliced
1 teaspoon	5ml	Ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon	5ml	Lemon juice
1/2 cup	118ml	Water
1 cup	198g / 7oz	Sugar
3/4 cup	46g / 1.6oz	All-purpose flour
1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Butter - or margarine
		Whipping cream - (optional)

Recipe Instructions

Place pears in a greased 8-inch-square baking pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice, and water; mix lightly.

In a medium-size bowl, mix sugar and flour. Using a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; evenly scatter crumbs over pear mixture. Bake in a 350Foven until fruit is tender when pierced and crust is lightly browned, about 1 hour. Offer cream to pour over individual portions.

This recipe appeared in a 1949 issue of Sunset. Pears or apples are lightly spiced, then baked beneath a crust of sweet, buttery crumbs.

Source:
Sunset Magazine, 1949

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