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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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