Chocolate Pears

Ingredients

• Pare four pears
• sauté in butter until browned
• Cook two ounces sweet chocolate
• one tablespoon sugar
• one and one-fourth cups cold milk
• one teaspoon arrowroot
• one-fourth cup cream
• one and one-half tablespoons butter
• four tablespoons powdered sugar
• flavor with one-half teaspoon vanilla
• a few grains salt

Method

1. 1

   Pare pears, cut in fourths lengthwise and sauté in butter until browned.

2. 2

   Arrange in a serving dish, pour over a sauce made by cooking chocolate, sugar, and milk in a double boiler for five minutes.

3. 3

   Add arrowroot mixed with cream and salt, cook for ten minutes.

4. 4

   Melt butter, add powdered sugar, and cook until caramelized.

5. 5

   Combine with the chocolate mixture, flavor with vanilla, and strain over pears.

As published

This recipe was extracted from What to Have for Dinner (1905) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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