Baked Pecan Stuffed Pears

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1 large cooking pear (Bosc or Anjou)

1 tablespoon chopped pecans

1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

2 Tablespoons brown sugar

2 Tablespoons Maple syrup

 

Combine pecans, spice, brown sugar and maple syrup in small bowl and

set aside

 

Peel pear, cut in half and remove core. Remove apx. 1 tablespoon of

pear making a cavity large enough to hold filling. Add removed(chopped)

pieces of pear to nut-syrup mixture.

Place pear cut side up in baking dish

Fill centers of pears with nut-syrup mixture and bake covered in 350

degree oven for apx. 20 min. or until pear is soft when pierced with

the blade of a sharp knife.

Serve at room temperature or chilled if desired.