Ingredients
6 ripe pears
1 egg
2/3 cup sour cream (light is ok)
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 tbsp flour (wondra)
1/4 tsp nutmeg (optional, but recommended)
TOPPING
5 tbsp sugar
5 tbsp brown sugar
1 1/2 cup chopped walnut pieces (optional, bu, t recommende
2 tsp cinnamon
Directions
Place pie crust in glass pie dish (9 inch).
Beat egg lightly in bowl. Add sour cream, sugar, vanilla, flour and
optional nutmeg to beaten egg. Blend until smooth. Peel, core and
slice pears thinly. Add pear slices to custard in the bowl. Toss pear
slices in the custard until all pear slices are coated with custard.
Place the coated slices in pie dish with the uncooked pie crust.
Arrange the coated sliced pears in the crust to be more or less flat.
Mix all topping ingredients, except the nuts (if used), together.
Sprinkle the nuts evenly over the top of the pie. Pour all of topping
on top of pie and smooth out the topping. Bake at 375 F. (glass pie
dish) for 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Dessert; Pear; Pie
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