Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 tb Lemon juice
4 lg Firm pears
4 Pieces crystallized ginger,
-cut in halves
2 tb Butter
1 tb Light-brown sugar
2/3 c Pineapple juice
2/3 c Whipping cream
Fresh bay leaves
Toasted flaked almonds

Preheat oven to 375'F. (190'C.). Lightly grease a shallow baking
dish. Fill a bowl with cold water and add lemon juice. Peel pears and
cut in half. Cut away stems and remove cores with a teaspoon. Drop
prepared pears in lemon water.

Pat pears dry on paper towels. Place a piece of crystallized ginger
into "well" of each pear half. Arrange pears, cut-sides down, in
greased dish.

Put butter, brown sugar and pineapple juice into a saucepan and heat
gently to dissolve sugar. Add whipping cream and boil 5 minutes. Pour
sauce over pears. Cover and bake in preheat oven 1 hour or until
pears are tender and sauce has thickened. Baste pears with sauce
several times during baking. Place pears on a warm serving plate and
spoon sauce over pears. Arrange bay leaves to resemble pear leaves
and garnish with almonds. Serve hot.

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