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Butterscotch Baked Pears

Type: Fruit
Courses: Dessert
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

6 cups 1422mlRipe but firm Bosc pears - (6 to 7 oz ea) - peeled, and (medium)
  Halved lengthwise
6 tablespoons 90mlUnsalted butter - (3/4 stick)
1/4 cup 40g / 1.4ozGolden brown sugar - (packed)
1/8 teaspoon 0.6mlSalt
2 tablespoons 30mlScotch
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlVanilla extract

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Using melon baller or small spoon, scoop out core from each pear half.

Melt butter in large ovenproof skillet over medium heat. Whisk in brown sugar and salt. Arrange pears, cut-side down, in skillet in single layer. Spoon some of sugar mixture over pears. Place skillet in oven; bake until pears are tender, basting once with syrup, about 30 minutes.

Transfer pears, cut-side up, to large shallow bowl, leaving syrup in skillet. Mix Scotch and vanilla extract into syrup. Using oven mitts as aid, place hot skillet over medium-high heat (mixture may ignite). Cook until syrup is reduced by half, whisking often, about 2 minutes. Spoon syrup over pears and serve.

This recipe yields 6 servings.

Source:
Bon Appetit, December 2002

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