Tinned pears

[milkmoustache]

How can I make a pudding with them tonight? Don't have enough milk for custard to go with, no unfrozen butter for a sponge pudding which is my normal fallback, and I don't want to go to the shop again. There must be another clever recipe out there...

[Ricekrispie22]

Microwave them and then eat with a scoop of ice cream instead of custard. They're also gorgeous with chocolate mousse. Or stew them with a pinch of cinnamon and stir them into porridge for breakfast! Or a tin of rice pud. They also go great in pancakes with Nutella.

[feltcarrot]

Ooh, love tinned pears! My recipes involve butter tho, pear and almond cake is delicious, as is pear and chocolate pudding!

[MrsRedFly]

This is really yummy - but you need butter!

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/squidgy-chocolate-pear-pudding

There might be a recipe using oil instead of butter - usually a muffin recipe

[Blondie1984]

Warm them up with maple syrup and eat with ice cream

[shoofly]

Chocolate sauce, ice cream, flaked almonds? Pears belle helene

[milkmoustache]

Thanks all - keep them coming! I am going to carve off a bit of frozen butter and make a butterscotch sauce to go with ice cream after they've been warned up.
I have made the squidgy chocolate pudding, totally gorgeous but even chocolate mad DS says it's too chocolatey! More of a Sunday lunch pud I think.

[Dogegg33]

Yes to the ice cream and chocolate sauce but I prefer chopped hazelnuts - scrummy!

[Blondie1984]

Or if you have bread you could do a Pear Charlotte

[milkmoustache]

I only have two slices of very worthy brown bread, so no Charlotte. Would tinned pears work, given that they are already quite floppy? I am intrigued...

[HotInWinter]

Make green jelly in a flat dish. Then turn the pears into nice using flaked almonds as ears, tiny piece of glace cherry for nose, cloves for eyes, and string for a tail. Don't eat the last 2 bits.
Butter free.....

[milkmoustache]

Too cold for jelly, DCs too old for jelly!

[greenelephantscarf]

a crumble?
do you have milk? you could do a white sauce with vanilla and sugar/honey as custard replacement.

[HotInWinter]

You are NEVER too old for jelly!

[SingaSong12]

Arrange them artfully in a bowl with a sprig of some herb or other and serve.

[milkmoustache]

Only one tin of pears, that would be a bijou portion each! Not enough milk in the house either. But I do have a plan now... I am enjoying the investment placed in my pudding by the Mumsnet army.

[Bluesheep8]

hotinwinter your suggestion made me smile inside! My mum used to shred the green jelly to look like grass, use flaked almonds as you suggest for ears, a small dot of chocolate sauce for a nose and whipped cream for the tail. She called it "bunnies on the lawn"

[3out]

When I was at school, one of my favourite puddings was homemade shortbread with tinned pears (and the juice) on top. Mmmmmmm!