Important note! Original recipe was doubled and in turn had the 2 cups of flour. Start with one and add as necessary.. sorry. ;) Also, pears can be peeled. Just adds to prep time. Good either way!
The topping didn't look right! I didn't read the reviews until after i put it in the oven. I pulled it out of the oven & added more brown sugar and more butter...it still didn't look right so I sprayed some water until it had the consistency of wet sand. It tuned out DELICIOUS!!! My husband...who comes from a long line of bakers...approved!!! I will mk it again but will omit the second cup of flour.
I used gluten free flour for no reason at all (just had it around), added 1/4 teaspoon of cloves and some raisins. I only used 1.5 cups of the gluten free flour. Also, at the start it says to drizzle the pears with 1/2 cup butter, then there's another 1/2 cup butter in the topping. I only used the butter in the topping and still found it pretty darn buttery...but could be because I used less flour. Good and I will use this recipe again for pears.
Didn't read the review first about using 1 cup of flour so I used two. It seemed to floury so I added extra butter and brown sugar. Way good! Just the kind of topping I was looking for.
Pretty good. omitted the stick of butter dumped over the pears (would have been way to much butter). Used oats for half of the flour and 4 cans of drained;p pears instead of fresh. Amazing!
Added lil more cinnamon also sprinkled a bit of cinnamon sugar on pear slices just a lil it was delicious!! Make it again? YES!
This was a great way to use of a bag of pears that were on the way to too ripe! I made a few changes to a recipe with 'great bones'. Since I knew the pears were going to be soft I decided to give it a contrasting texture by using 1 1/2 C of oatmeal (since it's what I had I used rolled/any is fine) 1/4 C of flour instead of all flour. For the brown sugar I used the brown sugar Splenda to cut the carbs and reduced the white sugar to 1/4 C. Since I only had 1 Tbsp of maple syrup that is all I drizzled on the pears. I decide based on another suggestion to add the butter on top of the dry ingredients instead. I mixed all of the dry ingredients and then spread that over the pears.I decreased the amount and melted 1 1/2 C of butter then added an increase of 3/4 tsp of vanilla to that (instead of mixing with the dry) then poured it over all. I think it puts the vanilla flavor everywhere instead of it being stuck in a glob. It was delicious and plenty sweet! Vanilla ice cream/yogurt would definitely be a great go with.
Thank you for a great simple recipe!
With some tweaks it will be better. I'll add some sugar and more flavors to the pears and reduce the amount of topping. And bake a bit longer.
