Description
More like cake than bread, this ‘plummy’ creation is moist and delicious. The pears and spices combine so tastily that I only bake this when there are other people around so I won’t eat both loaves all by myself.
Ingredients
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- ¼ cup molasses
- 3 eggs
- 1 ¼ teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
- 4 very firm D’Anjou pears, thinly sliced
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
- and generously grease two large loaf pans. (The long pieces of pear make the loaves more susceptible to sticking in the pans and falling apart
- so make sure you grease the pans generously.)
- In a large bowl
- combine brown sugar
- vegetable oil
- molasses
- and eggs. Mix in salt
- baking soda
- cinnamon
- cloves
- ginger
- and allspice. Stir the pear slices in
- coating them evenly. Stir in the flour. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pans
- Bake for 50 to 65 minutes. Allow loaves to cool in pan about ten minutes before removing them and placing them on a wire rack to cool completely.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Servings: 24