Recipe - Pear Belle Helene

3 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
4 Mediumsized Bosc pears
Vanilla ice cream
Chocolate sauce

1. Preheat oven to 400 F.

2. Prepare a syrup by stirring the sugar in 1One half cups water over medium
heat until dissolved & then allowing to boil over high heat about 10
minutes, without stirring. Flavor the syrup with the vanilla extract to
taste.

3. Peel the pears & place in a baking dish with the vanilla flavored
syrup. Bake in preheated oven for about 1 hour. Remove, cool, and chill the
pears.

4. Serve the pears standing in a bed of vanilla ice cream topped with
chocolate sauce.

LA SCALA

SANTA MONICA BLVD, BEVERLY HILLS

WINE:CHIANTI CLASICO RISERVA '74

From the Micro Cookbook Collection of Italian Recipes. Downloaded from
Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.