Hi! I found this online thinking it would be great to have this for the holidays. Its a long lost family recipe for these folks; I KNOW some of you have magazine collections. Would you be willing to check for this? If its found--I'll post it for this family. I'd love to have it myself! Thank you in advance..Charlotte
"My family has been searching for years to find this long lost dessert recipe. My dad made this dessert
on Christmas many years ago and I can still remember how good it was! Everyone loved the recipe and
decided this was going to be our annual Christmas dessert, until the next year when the recipe couldn't
be found. I'm pretty sure everyone in my family has made an attempt to find the recipe at some point
in time with no luck.
From what was recalled, the dessert was called "Pear Pudding". It was a very moist, dense cake made
in a pudding pan with a sealed lid and boiled in a pot. The recipe used real vanilla beans (not extract),
and came with a sauce/drizzle recipe. Neither the sauce, nor the cake had caramel (which is a lot of what
I find online). There were no chucks or pieces of pear in the cake, on the cake, or in the sauce...it
was all pureed. The sauce had to be made one day ahead and was a sort of pear reduction with real vanilla
bean. The recipe was originally found in a cooking magazine (possibly Bon Appetite or Gourmet). The year
was somewhere between 1987-1989. We think it also used cake flour, possibly a tiny bit of ginger, and
maybe almond paste or extract. We lived in Orlando, FL at the time this was made.
You would be honored in our family if this recipe was found!!!"
"My family has been searching for years to find this long lost dessert recipe. My dad made this dessert
on Christmas many years ago and I can still remember how good it was! Everyone loved the recipe and
decided this was going to be our annual Christmas dessert, until the next year when the recipe couldn't
be found. I'm pretty sure everyone in my family has made an attempt to find the recipe at some point
in time with no luck.
From what was recalled, the dessert was called "Pear Pudding". It was a very moist, dense cake made
in a pudding pan with a sealed lid and boiled in a pot. The recipe used real vanilla beans (not extract),
and came with a sauce/drizzle recipe. Neither the sauce, nor the cake had caramel (which is a lot of what
I find online). There were no chucks or pieces of pear in the cake, on the cake, or in the sauce...it
was all pureed. The sauce had to be made one day ahead and was a sort of pear reduction with real vanilla
bean. The recipe was originally found in a cooking magazine (possibly Bon Appetite or Gourmet). The year
was somewhere between 1987-1989. We think it also used cake flour, possibly a tiny bit of ginger, and
maybe almond paste or extract. We lived in Orlando, FL at the time this was made.
You would be honored in our family if this recipe was found!!!"