Recipe - Ginger-Pear Crisp

1 cup Rolled oats; uncooked
One half cup Allpurpose flour
One fourth cup Firmly packed brown sugar
1/8 teaspoon Ground cloves
One half cup Butter or margarine; chilled
One half cup Blanched almonds; coarsely
chopped
3 tablespoon Crystallized ginger; finely
chopped
6 cup Peeled pears; cored and
cut or sliced up
Vanilla ice cream or whipped
cream; optional

Preheat oven to 400F. Butter an 8" square glass baking dish. Combine
oats, flour, brown sugar, and cloves in medium bowl; mix well. Cut in btter
with bastry blender or two knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Stir in almonds and ginger.

Arrange pears in prepared dish. Sprinkle oat mixture evenly over pears.
Bake 30 min or until topping is golden brown. Serve warm with ice cream or
whipped cream, if desired.
Recipe By : Best Recipes 6/94

Posted to FOODWINE Digest 9 October 96

Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 23:11:37 0500

From: Ellen Court CourtMoss@NOVANET.NET