(Dessert - Serves 4)
Ingredients
25 g / 1 oz LURPAK Slightly Salted Butter, cut into smaller pieces
100 g / 4 oz sugar
5 unpeeled pears, cut into wedges (approx. 700 g / 1 1/2 lbs)
Crumbled pastry
225 g / 8 oz plain flour
2 1/2 tbsp sugar
150 g / 5 oz cold LURPAK Slightly Salted Butter
2-3 cm / 1"" stick liquorice
250 ml / 9 fl oz whipping cream 35-38% - whipped
Baking time: Approx. 45 min. at 200°C / 400°F / Gas Mark 6.
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Instructions
Melt butter and sugar in a frying pan (approx. 21 cm / 8 1/4" diam.) over a high heat and keep stirring until the mixture has turned golden brown. Turn in the pear wedges and let the sugar-mixture melt again - it takes approx. 5 min. Line a roasting pan (4 x 25 x 25 cm / 1 1/2 x 10 x 10"") with baking paper. Spread the pear wedges into the roasting pan and pour over the rest of the melted butter.
Crumbled topping: Mix flour and sugar in a bowl. Crumble the butter into the flour mixture until it looks like grated cheese. Sprinkle the pastry over the pears and bake the dessert in the middle of the oven. Cover the pastry with baking paper if it turns too dark.
Put the stick liquorice into a plastic food bag. Crush the liquorice with a rolling-pin (1 tsp crushed liquorice).
Let the dessert rest for 5 min. on a cooling tray. Place a flat dish over the roasting pan and turn around, so that the dessert is placed with the filling upwards. Remove the baking paper and sprinkle with liquorice.
Serve the warm pear tart together with whipped cream.
Liquorice stick is hard and has a strong taste.
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