Recipe - Pear Pudding Cake

Three fourths cup Whole wheat pastry flour
Three fourths cup Unbleached white flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 One half teaspoon Ground ginger
One fourth teaspoon Ground cardamom
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1/3 cup Dried currants or raisins
1/3 cup Blanched, slivered and
toasted almonds
2 cup Diced and peeled pears
(about 2 large)
2/3 cup Pear or other noncitrus
fruit juice
1/3 cup Maple syrup
3 cup Boiling water

Grease and flour a 1quart baking pan or heatproof casserole.

In a large bowl, combine flours, baking soda, ginger, cardamom, salt,
currants or raisins, and almonds. Stir in pears. In a measuring cup,
combine juice and syrup. Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients. Pour
batter into baking pan. Cover and wrap tightly with a sheet of aluminum
foil large enough to tuck ends under bottom of pan.

Place rack or trivet in bottom of pressure cooker. Pour in boiling water.
Lower baking pan into cooker and set on rack. (Be sure there's a 1/2inch
space between pressure cooker and edge of casserole.) Lock lid in place.
Over high heat, bring to high pressure. Lower heat just enough to maintain
high pressure and cook 25 minutes (30 minutes if you're using a casserole
dish instead of a baking pan).

Allow pressure to come down naturally for 15 minutes. If after 15 minutes
pressure is not released, use a quickrelease method to release lid).
Remove lid.

Lift baking pan out of cooker. Remove foil and set pan on rack to cool.
Unmold cake or serve from pan. Serve warm or at room temperature. Serves 6
to 8.

HELPFUL HINT: To lift baking pan or casserole in and out of cooker, cut a
piece of aluminum foil 2 feet long by 1 foot wide; fold it twice
lengthwise. Center casserole on strip and use ends of strip to lower
cassrole into cooker. Fold ends of foil strip over top of casserole. Use
ends of strip to lift casserole out of cooker.

Per serving: 307 calories; 5g protein; 5g fat; 39g carbohydrate; 0
cholesterol;
191 mg sodium; 6g fiber.

Posted to rec.food.recipes by christi@meaddata.com (Christi Wilson) on Feb
8, 1995.