pear crisp

Last week my roommate maggie and myself volunteered at a seminar that our college was putting on.  After the seminar was over there was a ton of sack lunches that the participants didn’t eat.  being cheap college students; we scavenged through the lunch sacks and took all of the pears. There were so many pears that we didn’t know what to do with them.  our solution to the pear problem was a pear crisp.  who doesn’t love a good crisp?  the combination of butter, oats and sugar makes this effortless dessert an all time favorite!

Ingredients:

For the filling:

5 or 6 large pears

2/3 C. sugar

¼ t. salt

For the topping:

1 ½ C. all-purpose flour

1/3 C. sugar

1.3 C. firmly packed brown sugar

½ t. cinnamon

1 C. oats

1 stick butter (melted)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  peel and slice pears and mix in a bowl with the sugar and salt. Set aside.

In another bowl combine flour, sugars, cinnamon, oats and melted butter.  Stir the mixture with a fork until nice and crumbly.

Place the pears into a square baking dish and top with the crumble mixture.  Bake for 40 minutes until the top is nice and golden brown.

Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!

note: If you don't like pears or don't have any on hand, you could also use apples, berries, peaches or nectarines.