Fresh Pear Pie

🧂 Ingredients

• 6 medium Bartlett pears

  peeled, cored and sliced thinly
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3 tbsp. butter

  cold and sliced into slivers
• 1/4 cup unbleached flour
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon

  or more, if desired
• 1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg

  or more, if desired
• 2 unbaked pie shells

  or crust equivalent to 2 crust layers

Instructions

• 1 Peel, core and slice pears thinly into a large mixing bowl.
• 2 Add granulated sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and flour.
• 3 Stir until very well combined.
• 4 Allow the mixture to sit out about 30 minutes so the sugar forms a syrup.
• 5 Meanwhile, preheat oven to 300º.
• 6 Roll out pie crust for the bottom and top of pie.
• 7 Fit bottom layer into a 9 or 10-inch deep dish pie plate.
• 8 Place butter into the crust.
• 9 Top with pears, then fit top crust overtop of the pears and flute edges.
• 10 Place pie on a cookie sheet pan to catch drips while baking.
• 11 Place pie in preheated oven and bake until the syrup starts bubbling up and
  thickening at the top.
• 12 This will take one and a half to two hours.

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