Recipe - Apricot-Honey Butter

6 lg Ripe, firm fresh pears
1 cup Apple juice
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 tablespoon Butter or reducedfat marg.
1 Cinnamon stick
1 12 oz. jar apricot preserves

Peel pears, leaving them whole with stem intact. Place in slow cooker. Add
apple juice, vanilla, butter and cinnamon stick. Cook on high for 34
hours.

Remove pears with slotted spoon. Place in individual dessert dishes. Heat
apricot preserves in small saucepan until melted. Top each pear with
preserves sauce. Serve 6 Source: Home Cooking Typed in MMFormat by
cjhartlin@msn.com 01/02/98
Posted to MMRecipes Digest V5 #027 by "Cindy Hartlin"
cjhartlin@email.msn.com on Jan 26, 1998