Recipe - Pears Glazed With Maple Syrup - Martha Stewart Living

One half cup Heavy cream
One fourth teaspoon Ground cardamom
3 Cornice pears (about
1 Three fourths lb)
1 tablespoon Lemon Juice
1 One half tablespoon Unsalted butter
3 tablespoon Pure maple syrup

1. In a chilled mixing bowl, combine cream and cardamom and whip until
cream holds soft peaks. Refrigerate, covered.

2. Quarter, core, and peel pears. Cut quarters in half and sprinkle with
lemon juice.

3. Melt butter in a large skillet over mediumhigh heat. Arrange pears in
skillet and cook on one side until pears just begin to brown, about 3
minutes. Add maple syrup and cook until pears are tender, about 1 minute
more. Turn pears and cook for another minute. Remove from heat and allow
pears to cool slightly. Transfer to bowls and serve warm, topped with
whipped cream.

Martha Stewart Living/October/94 Scanned & edited by Di Pahl & gg
Posted to MMRecipes Digest V4 #030 by John Merkel jmerk@doitnow.com on
Jan 28, 1997.