Recipe - Pear Pound Cake

8 tablespoon Unsalted butter,, at room
temperature
1 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 1/3 cup Allpurpose flour
1 pn Salt
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 pn Ground nutmeg
1 lg Egg
One half cup Buttermilk
2 small Pears, peeled, cored, and,
coarsely chopped
One fourth cup Coarsely chopped pecans

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8 x 5inch loaf pan. In a mixing
bowl, cream 6 tablespoons of the butter with the sugar and the vanilla
until light and smooth. Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, and
nutmeg and toss together until evenly mixed. Add half of the flour mixture
and the egg to the butter mixture and mix well. Add the rest of the flour
mixture and the buttermilk, beating them in well. Fold in the pears and the
pecans. Scoop the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 45
minutes, or until the center is firm and golden and a skewer inserted into
the center comes out clean. Cool on a rack for 10 minutes, then turn out of
the pan and finish cooling. When cool, invert onto a serving plate and cut
into slices.

Yield: 1 (8inch) loaf
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #328

Recipe by: TOO HOT TAMALES SHOW #TH6224

From: Meg Antczak meginny@frontiernet.net

Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 08:11:39 0500