Ginger Pear Crisp

I made two of these yesterday, one for us to enjoy and one to take to a mother-daughter breakfast for local homeschoolers. We gobbled ours up! I adapted a recipe from The ‘I Can’t Believe This Has No Sugar’ Cookbook by Deborah E. Buhr. I made small changes, but the biggest was adding ground ginger to complement the pears.

adapted from The ‘I Can’t Believe This Has No Sugar’ Cookbook by Deborah E. Buhr

  • 4 cups sliced pears, skin on
  • 3 tablespoons granulated or small pearl tapioca
  • 1/2 cup sweetener, or to taste
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/4 cup sprouted spelt or wheat flour
  • 1/4 cup chopped crispy almonds (soaked and dehydrated — why soak nuts?)
  • 1/4 cup rolled oats
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon (heaping)
  • 3 tablespoons butter shavings or coconut oil shavings

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together sliced pears, tapioca, sweetener, cinnamon and ginger. Put in square 8 or 9 inch baking pan. Sprinkle flour, almonds, oats, coconut and cinnamon over all. Top with shavings of butter or coconut oil. Bake for 50 minutes.

About Wardeh

Wardeh ('Wardee') Harmon lives in Oregon with her husband, Jeff, and their three children, Haniya, Naomi & Mikah. They garden and raise a dairy cow, chickens and goats. Wardeh is passionate about traditional cooking. She writes books and teaches online classes in traditional cooking, sourdough, cultured dairy, cheesemaking and fermentation. Follow Wardeh on Google+.

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Comments

  1. Sylvia says:

    Sounds really tasty. Anytime I have sme fresh fruit that I want to cook, I use a recipe and method similar to this. Though more often than not, I use quick oats instead of tapioca.

  2. Robin says:

    Sounds scrumptious! I have never seen tapioca before. Guess I will have to look for it now! :)

  3. Wardeh says:

    Sylvia, I see that oats would thicken much like the tapioca does, as they are both starchy.

    Robin, I have found tapioca at a health food store in the baking aisle.

  4. Lesley Price says:

    this looks like such a tasty pear recipe.

    I am going to have to serve this up to some dinner guests this week.

    I will let you know if they like it.

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