Baked Pears With Lemon Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 tablespoon arrowroot
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 grated lemons, zest of
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1/2 cup honey
• 6 fresh firm pears
• 1/2 cup water
• 4 -5 whole cloves

Recipe

• 1 make lemon sauce ahead of time: dissolve arrowroot in a little milk; place in a saucepan with rest of milk and cinnamon stick.
• 2 stir and cook over low heat, stirring, until slightly thickened.
• 3 stir in lemon peel, lemon juice and 1/4 cup of the honey.
• 4 remove from heat, remove and discard cinnamon stick, cover and place in refrigerator to chill.
• 5 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 6 halve and core pears; place in a glass baking dish.
• 7 in a small saucepan, bring 1/4 cup honey, water and cloves just to boiling point, but do not boil; pour over pears.
• 8 bake until pears are fork-tender (time for this varies considerably depending on firmness of pears--really hard ones can take as much as an hour).
• 9 remove and discard whole cloves.
• 10 serve warm with chilled lemon sauce.