Chocolate Pear Pudding
Ingredients:
- 1/4 c Milk
- 3/4 c Flour, sifted
- 1 lb Pears, 4 or 5 medium, bosc
- 1 tb Sugar
- 2 tb Butter, cut in bits
- 1 tb Cocoa, heaping
- 1/2 ts Baking soda
- 1/2 ts Baking powder
- 3/4 c Sugar, dark brown
- 2 tb Corn syrup, lyle's golden
- 1 Egg, large beaten
- 4 tb Butter; melted
- Whipped or ice cream, for topping
- 1/4 c Milk
- 3/4 c Flour, sifted
Instructions:
Peel, core and slice thin (or cut into chunks) 1 poound of pears, which
you arrange on the bottom of a buttered baking dish ( a souffle dish is
fine). Sprinkle the pears with sugar, and dot with butter. Then mix
together the flour, the cocoa powder, the baking soda and powder, add
the golden corn syrup, the brown sugar, and then the egg, the butter
and milk. Beat together into a batter. Pour the batter on top of the
pears and bake the pudding for 45 to 50 minutes in a 325 degree
oven.
