Comice Pear Crisp Recipes

PEAR AND HUCKLEBERRY CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, toss fruit with sugar and transfer to a cobbler dish. In a separate bowl, mix flour with the brown sugar. Add butter and mix with a pastry knife until crumbly. Spoon on top of fruit and bake for 35 to 40 minutes.

COMICE PEAR CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F. Toast the nuts until fragrant, about 7 or 8 minutes, and chop them medium-fine. Combine the flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a mixing bowl. Cut the butter into small pieces. Work it into the flour mixture with your fingers until crumbly. Add the chopped nuts and mix well - the topping should hold together when squeezed. (The topping can be prepared up to a week ahead and refrigerated.)
• Put the diced pears in a large mixing bowl. Add the sugar and taste; adjust if necessary. Sprinkle the flour over the pears and mix gently. Turn the mixture into an earthenware dish just large enough to hold the fruit, slightly mounded at the center. Spoon the topping over the pears, pressing down lightly. Place the dish on a baking sheet to catch any overflow and bake on the center rack of the oven for 40 to 50 minutes, until the topping is dark golden brown and the juices have thickened slightly. Serve warm with ice cream or Armagnac-flavored whipped cream.
• Variations: Other fruits may be substituted with the same general proportions, but some fruits require more or less sugar and flour, depending on their natural sweetness and juiciness. Rhubarb, for instance, requires more of both; apples require no flour at all.

COMICE PEAR, DRIED FRUIT, AND HUCKLEBERRY CROSTATA

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. To make the topping, measure the flour, polenta, sugar, salt, baking powder, and aniseeds into a food processor or a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Add the butter and pulseor mix on medium-low speed until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and make a well in the center. Pour the egg into the well and toss the egg and flour together lightly and thoroughly with you fingers until evenly mixed. The mixture will not adhere in the manner of a dough, but will clump together if pressed in your palm. Set aside until needed. To make the filling, combine all the ingredients in a large bowl and toss well until well mixed. Turn into a 2-quart shallow baking dish. Sprinkle the topping over the filling in a even layer. Do not press down. Place the dish on a baking sheet to catch the drips and place in the oven. Bake until the juices are bubbling up around the topping and the top is crisp, and golden brown, about 1 hour. Serve with ice cream if desired.

PEAR CRISP

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 F degrees.
• Combine pears with white sugar, lemon juice, and lemon peel.
• Place in greased 8 inch square baking dish.
• Combine oatmeal, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and ginger.
• Cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly.
• Sprinkle crumb mixture over pears.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes, until topping is crisped.
• Serve warm.

PEAR CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees with rack in center.
• Crisp topping:Stir together oats, sugar, almonds, flour, and salt. Add butter and mix with hands until small clumps form and dry mixture is coated in butter. Cover with plastic and refrigerate.
• Filling:Peel, halve, and core pears, then slice into 1/2-inch-thick pieces. Add to a large bowl and toss with lime juice as you work to prevent pears from browning. Toss with sugar, ginger, flour, and salt. Transfer to a 2-quart baking dish. Remove crisp topping from refrigerator and break into small pieces. Scatter evenly over the top. Transfer to oven and bake until bubbly, 50 to 60 minutes (tent top with foil if browning too quickly). Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack 20 minutes before serving with vanilla ice cream. Crisp is best eaten the day it's made, but can be stored, covered, for up to 3 days in the refrigerator.

PEAR CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Toss pears with orange juice; place in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Combine the sugar, cinnamon, allspice and ginger; sprinkle over pears., For topping, in a small bowl, combine the flour, oats, brown sugar and baking powder; cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over pears., Bake until topping is golden brown and fruit is tender, 35-40 minutes. Serve warm. If desired, garnish with mint.

PEAR CRISP

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Peel, core and quarter the pears. Slice each quarter into 2 or 3 pieces. Place in large bowl.
• Mix all but 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar with the flour, cinnamon, ginger, raisins and brandy. Add to pears and mix well.
• Chop oats in food processor. Add the remaining brown sugar, the butter and the orange juice concentrate, and mix well.
• Spoon pear mixture into an 8-cup gratin dish, and sprinkle with oat mixture. Bake in lower third of the oven for 35 to 40 minutes, until oat mixture begins to brown and pears soften. Remove from oven and stir oat mixture into pears. Serve warm.

APPLE, CRANBERRY, AND PEAR CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease an 8 inch baking dish.
• Mix the apples, pears, cranberries, 1 tablespoon flour, honey, and lemon juice in the prepared dish.
• In a bowl, mix 1/2 cup flour, brown sugar, oats, walnuts, and butter to the consistency of coarse crumbs. Sprinkle loosely over the fruit mixture.
• Bake 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until brown and crisp on top.

PEAR CRISP FOR TWO

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease two small ramekins and place them on a baking sheet.
• Mix pears, honey, and flour together in a bowl. Place equal amounts of the fruit mixture into each bowl.
• Combine graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar, butter, walnuts, cinnamon, and nutmeg together in a small bowl; crumble on top of the fruit.
• Bake in the preheated oven until slightly brown, about 35 minutes. Serve.

PEAR CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an eight-inch-square baking dish.
• Spread the pecan pieces on a baking sheet and toast in the oven for six to eight minutes. Combine the toasted pecans with a cup of flour, the brown sugar, salt and cinnamon. Rub the pieces of butter in with your fingertips to make a crumbly mixture. Refrigerate.
• Toss the pears with a tablespoon of flour and the granulated sugar. Spread in the baking dish and sprinkle evenly with the topping.
• Bake one hour until brown, bubbly and crisp. Serve while still warm with ice cream or whipped cream.