3/4 c Butter or margarine;
-softened
2 1/2 c Flour; all-purpose
1 c Sugar
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Baking soda
4 Squares baking chocolate;
-unsweetened, melted
1 Egg
1 c Milk
1 cn Pear halves; rinsed and
-drained
1/3 c Pecan halves
Preheat the oven at 350F.
Using a lectric mixer, cream the butter. Add the flour et sugar et using
low speed mix well, until the mix seems like sand. reserve 1/3 cup of this
mixture.
Add to the remaining mixture, baking soda, baking powder, chocolate, the
egg and milk. Mix just to insure that everything is mix.
Spread 1/3 of the chocolate mixture into a 9″ spring pan, greased. Dispose
onto the mixture the pear in circle, the cut side down. Cover the prears
with the remainder of the chocolate mixtrue. Sprinkle the mixture the 1/3
cup mixture that was reserved and sprinkle over the pecans.
Bake for 70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle come out
clean
Yields
8 Servings