Pears With Black Cherry Sauce

yield: 6 pears (6 servings) by carol connell

This is an exquisitely elegant dessert, very simple to make and quite
pleasing to the eye and palate.

6 large pears
11/2 cups black cherry juice
2 tablespoons arrowroot
1/4 cup cold water
Whole mint leaves for garnish

Place the pears in a pot with the stem-end upward. Add the cherry juice to
the bottom of the pot. Cover and steam the pears in the juice until almost
soft, about 20 minutes. Remove the pears from the juice. Dilute the
arrowroot in the cold water. Add to the juice, reheat, and stir until
thick and clear. Ladle the sauce over the pears. Garnish with whole mint
leaves.

Variation: Serve the pear halves fanned over a slice of angel food cake
that has been covered with some black cherry sauce or fruit preserves.
Then top with a dollop of Whipped "Cream" Serving size 5, 1 pear each

109 calories 0.5 grams total fat 0.1 grams saturated fat 0 milligrams
cholesterol

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