Pear Cake
Cake made of pears
Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoon Butter, Salted Will need additional for the pan
- ½ Cup Unflavored Bread Crumbs "Fine"
- 2 Eggs
- ¼ Cup Sugar, Granulated
- 1 Pinch Salt
- 1 ½ Cup Flour
- 2 Pounds Pears, Ripe
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350° F
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Grease 9" pan with butter, sprinkle with bread crumbs. Lightly shake out loose breadcrumbs from pan.
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Beat together eggs and milk.
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Add sugar and salt and continue beating until well mixed.
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Add flour and mix together completely with other ingredients.
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Peel the pears, slice lengthwise in relatively thick slices while removing the core.
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Carefully add pear slices to the (now very thick) batter.
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Attempt to "pour" the batter into the pan, leveling it off as much as possible.
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Dispense little chunks of the butter on the top surface of the batter.
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Bake on the top rack of the oven (did you remember to preheat that sucker in step 1?) for about 45 minutes until the top is lightly goldeny brown.
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Pull it out of the oven and cool before serving.
Recipe Notes
From William Grimes at the New York Times