Recipe - Pears With Amber Sauce

6 lg Pears
1/3 cup Chopped pecans
2 tablespoon Butter
1 teaspoon Lemon peel

AMBER SAUCE
One half cup Brown sugar
One fourth cup Light corn syrup
One fourth cup Milk
2 tablespoon Butter

Core pears; pare upper half to prevent splitting. Place pears upright in
ungreased rectangular baking dish, 12x7 1/2. (Cut thin slices from bottom,
if necessary, to stand upright.) Mix pecans, butter and lemon peel. Place
about 2 tsp pecan mixture in center of each pear. Pour water (1/4" deep)
into baking dish. Cover tightly with aluminum foil. Cook at 350* for 4045
min. Prepare amber sauce; serve over warm pears

Amber Sauce: Mix all ingredients in 1 qt saucepan. Cook over low heat,
stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved and sauce is hot, about 5
min.

Posted to BakeryShoppe Digest V1 #443 by slea@hightowerservices.com (Shawn
Zehnder Lea) on Dec 9, 1997