Foil-wrapped Pears with Caramel Sauce
- 2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons packed brown sugar
- Generous pinch ground cinnamon
- 1 comice or anjou pear
- 1 navel orange, halved
- Blend together butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a small bowl.
- Cut pear in half and remove core with a melon baller; cut off stem and blossom end.
- Do not peel pear.
- Place each half pear, cored side up, on a large square of doubled heavy-duty foil.
- Scoop up half the butter-sugar mixture and form into a ball with your hands; press into cored pear cavity.
- Gather foil up around pear half and squeeze juice from 1 orange half over pear.
- Close foil around pear.
- Repeat with other pear half.
- Place foil-wrapped pears in a preheated 350 degree oven and bake until very soft, about 1 hour.
- Or place on a grate over a burned-down campfire and cook until soft, moving packet often with tongs so fruit doesn't scorch, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
butter, brown sugar, generous, pear, orange
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/foil-wrapped-pears-with-caramel-sauce-recipe.html (may not work)