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                              PEARS MELBA

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Serving Size  : 8    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Desserts

 Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  4                    Firm ripe pears, preferably
                       -Bosc
    1/2   c            Sugar
    1/2   c            Water
  1                    Strip lemon peel
  1       t            Vanilla
    1/2   c            Sweet wine (Marsala or
                       -Madeira)
    1/2   c            Dry wine
  1       pt           Ice cream (i.e. vanilla,
                       -toasted almond, pear)
  1       pt           Raspberries, pureed with 2
                       -tablespoons sugar

 Peel, core and halve pears.  Combine sugar, water, lemon peel,
 vanilla and wines and bring to a boil.  Boil 3 minutes.  Add pears
 and slowly poach in the sauce until tender and infused with sauce.
 Turn pears occasionally with tongs.  Remove from sauce.  Reduce sauce
 until very syrupy. Cool.

 Place a spoonful of sauce in the bottom of an individual serving bowl.
 Place a 2-ounce scoop of ice cream on the sauce and top with the
 poached pear.  Drizzle with the pureed raspberries and serve.

 Serves 8.

 PER SERVING:  225 calories, 2 g protein, 36 g carbohydrate, 6 g fat
 (4 g saturated), 22 mg cholesterol, 29 mg sodium, 4 g fiber.

 Heidy Haughy Cusik writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, 11/25/91.

 Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; September 30 1993.



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