What can I bake/cook with horrible pears?

[naturelover]

They are floury and tasteless, and cheap from the market. That will teach me! Is there anything I can do that will salvage them? I have six, it would feel wrong to throw them out.

[meridian]

muffins (with cinnamon) ... or upsidedown cake with a dark brown sugar and cinnamon (or vanilla) to add flavour...

I can find a recipe if you need one

[slng]

I think you should try this and tell me if it works with real pears instead of tinned ones!

[2loudboys]

Peel, them, poach them in white wine & sugar syrup, and then serve them warm with chocolate & cream melted together as a sauce.

[NotQuiteCockney]

I've used this recipe. It seems to default to all metric (3 mg of cinnamon anyone?) but you can switch back and forth using those radio buttons above the recipe.

[umberella]

poach them, slice them and make a blue cheese, walnut and pear salad out of 'em.

mm that's made me hungry now

[laidbackinengland]

Crumble?

[Shitehawk]

Might I suggest that if they're horrible, floury and tasteless raw, they will probably be horrible, floury and tasteless cooked?

The compost heap is probably your best bet; yes, it might feel like a waste, but how much worse would it feel if you spent hours cooking them and you still ended up throwing them away because they tasted horrible?

Save yourself the hassle!