Recipe - Maple Pear Crunch

1/3 cup Maple syrup
1 tablespoon Lemon juice
4 lg Firm ripe pears; cored and
thinly cut or sliced up
One half cup All purpose flour
3 tablespoon Yellow cornmeal
3 tablespoon Brown sugar; packed
1/8 teaspoon Cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon Salt
3 tablespoon Unsalted butter; chilled and
cut into small pieces

Prep: 15 min, Cook: 45 min.

Preheat oven to 375øF. Combine maple syrup and lemon juice in a heavy
nonreactive saucepan. Cook over low heat 5 minutes or until very hot.
Remove from heat. Stir in pear slices and transfer to a buttered baking
dish. Set aside. Combine remaining ingredients, except butter, in a food
processor or bowl. Cut butter into dry ingredients until mixture resembles
coarse meal. Sprinkle topping over pears and bake 40 minutes or until
bubbly and golden.
Posted to recipeludigest by molony molony@scsn.net on Mar 02, 1998