Baked Pear Halves

Use at least two halves per person

Ingredients
A few cans of preserved pear halves
Butter
Treacle sugar
Dessert Wine or Brandy

Method
1.  Pre-heat the oven to 180°C. 
2.  Rub butter on the base of an ovenproof dish.
3.  Drain the pears, but set some of the juice aside.
4.  Pack the pear halves with the hollow showing upward, tightly together in the dish.
5.  Put a blob of butter into every hollow.
6.  Drizzle with the dessert wine or brandy, and some of the juice.
7.  Sprinkle with treacle sugar - don't be too shy.
8.  Place the dish in the oven and bake for about 90 minutes.  Make sure it doesn't dry out.  If it should, you can add some juice or dessert wine.

Serve with a blob of double thick cream.  Yum!!