Pears In Meringue With Chocolate Sauce

Recipe Ingredients

1 tablespoon	15ml	Toasted almonds - finely chopped
1 cup	146g / 5.1oz	Glace fruits - finely chopped
		= (preferably cherries, ginger, apricot,
		Fig, and pineapple)
1/4 cup	59ml	Rum - plus
2 tablespoons	30ml	Rum
3/8 cup	88ml	Water
1		Small piece cinnamon bark
4 tablespoons	60ml	Apricot jam
4		Pears - peeled, halved,
		And cored
2		Egg whites
4 tablespoons	60ml	Confectioners' sugar - sifted, plus
		More to dust
4		Dark chocolate - chopped

Recipe Instructions

Soak almonds, glace fruit, and 1/4 cup rum together overnight.

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Combine water, cinnamon, and jam in a large saucepan. Boil until well incorporated and syrupy. Reduce heat. Add pears and cook gently for 5 minutes. Remove to an ovenproof dish. Fill cavities with crystallized fruit. Reserve pan syrup, discarding cinnamon bark.

Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold in confectioners' sugar. Pipe this meringue over pears. Dust with confectioners' sugar and bake for 5 minutes.

Stir chocolate pieces into warm syrup and add rum.

Serve pears on a heated platter, surrounded with warm chocolate sauce.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Description:

"A Very Sweet French Dessert"

Source:
THE GALLOPING GOURMET with Graham Kerr - (Show # GA-0136) - from the - TV FOOD NETWORK

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