How to oven dry pears

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 Bosc Pears; Comice Or Red Bartlett Pears, Unpeeled
1 tablespoon Sugar

Directions

fills one standard baking pan

Heat oven to 225F. Line a pan with parchment.. Cut each pear lengthwise into ⅛ - ¼" thick slices. Remove seeds and fibrous bits from each slice; arrange on pan, spaced ½ - 1" apart. Sprinkle with sugar.

Transfer to oven; dry until pears become firmer, slightly chewy, and shriveled around edges, 1½ - 2 ½ hrs. Transfer to a wire rack. Store in an airtight container, refrigerated, up to 2 days or frozen, up to 6 weeks.

Recipe by: Martha Stewart Living Sept 1998 Posted to EAT-LF Digest by Reggie Dwork <reggie@...> on Sep 16, 1998, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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