Pear Crumble



Thanks to my friend, Minnie, I have lots of fresh pears.  Thus I made pear crumble this morning for breakfast.  It was delicious.  Pear crumble is very much like peach crumble but I use slightly different spices.  Ginger goes great with pears, but not nutmeg. 

Ingredients:

Filling

2 - 3 cups diced pears (no need to peel)

2 Tbl pure maple syrup

1 Tbl pure honey

1/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour (or 2 Tbl wheat berries or buckwheat groats)

1/2 tsp ginger

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/8 tsp cloves

1/4 tsp fine sea salt

Topping

2/3 cup whole grain pastry flour (or 1/2 cup spelt berries)

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp fine sea salt

1 1/2 cups rolled oats

1/3 cup coconut oil (liquefied)

1 Tbl maple syrup

Core and dice fresh pears.  Drizzle the 1 Tbl of honey and 2 Tbl of maple syrup over pears, and stir well to mix.  In a separate dish, mix together the filling flour and spices, then add to pear mixture and stir well.  Grease an 8" square glass baking dish with butter, and pour in pear mixture.

 

In a separate bowl, mix the topping flour and spices.  Stir well. Add the rolled oats, and stir again.  In a measuring cup, mix the coconut oil and maple syrup (if the maple syrup in cold, it will solidify the coconut oil so I gently heat the mix on the stove until liquefied again).  While stirring, pour the liquid mix onto the dry mix.  Place the resulting crumbly mixture over the pears.  Bake at 325 °F for 45 minutes.