In case you hadn’t had your fill of weird pear desserts with 15-41: Pear Halves with Chocolate Topping and 14-21: Pear Pandowdy, I have a third one for you: 14-17: Pears with Mint Chocolate. To add to the weirdness, even Food Network considers this a recipe.
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It does look nice, but I don’t know about the taste claims. Is it the pear that they think makes this taste so good, or the mint chocolate/whipped cream/liqueur?
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I used the pear cooking method from 15-41: Pear Halves with Chocolate Topping to cook the fruit for both this recipe and that one. I’d advise taking them up on the suggested cake addition–everything is better with cake.
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Ingredients. I found the box of mints that they show on the card, and they look almost the same as they did 30+ years ago. They don’t list whipped cream in their ingredients and I don’t show it here, but they do show it on the card–I’d suggest adding that as well.
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Peeled my pears.
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Halved and cored them as well.
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Mixing up the pear cooking liquid from the aforementioned 15-41: Pear Halves with Chocolate Topping--you can see the card for that one in the shot. The little yellow thing you see there is ginger.
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Putting the mint squares on the liqueur-sprinkled pear halves.
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Final picture, including a dollop of whipped cream and a walnut to garnish, just like theirs. I enjoyed all of the non-pear parts of the recipe, but I can’t say much for it as a whole.
I should have added the cake.
Grade: B-