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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  North American >> Canadian >> Canadian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. | 2. Lightly coat baking sheet with non stick cooking spray. | 3. In a medium bowl, mix together flour and salt. | 4. While stirring flour mixture briskly with fork, drizzle in oil a little at a time, stirring until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. | 5. Add almond extract and water a tablespoon at a time, adding just enough water for tough to come together. | 6. Shape dough into a disc. | 7. Wrap in in waxed paper or plastic; refrigerate one hour or until firm. | 8. While dough chills, peel pears and slice in half lengthwise. | 9. Core pears by cutting a V-shaped wedge lengthwise from the center of the cut side of each pear. | 10. Place the pear halves in a bowl of water mixed with a little lemon juice. | 11. On baking sheet, roll out dough int a rectangle. | 12. Drain pears and and slice thinly. | 13. Insert knife blade under the slices and lift onto dough. | 14. Repeat with remaining slices. | 15. Fold dough edges up and over pears about a 1/2 inch or so to form a border. | 16. You can leave the edge plain or notch or flute it like you would a pie crust if you choose to make it look fancy. | 17. This is an open fruit cake so Pears will not be entirely covered by dough. | 18. Sprinkle pears with Splenda. | 19. Brush pears with melted preserves. | 20. Sprinkle pears with cranberries and slivered almonds if using. | 21. Bake at 350ºF 30 minutes or until top is golden brown. | 22. Cool on wire rack. | 23. Slice into squares to serve. | 24. Can be served warm or room temperature. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
purpose flour	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
salt	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
canola oil	1/3	cup		642.3733	0.0	0.0	72.6667
almond extract	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
ice water	3 -4	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
pear	3			239.4	63.966	1.5119999999999998	0.588
splenda granular	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
apricot jam	2	tablespoons	no-sugar-added melted	96.8	25.76	0.28	0.08
cranberry	1	tablespoon	dried	3.1625	0.8229	0.0316	0.0089
almond	1	tablespoon	slivered	120.22399999999999	0.0	0.0	13.6
lemon juice				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.