Dessert Recipes > Pear and Hazelnut Shortcake

This recipe is part of the September 2007 Recipes Menu


Starter - Courgettes with a Lemon Cashew Centre
Main Course - Roast Pheasant with a Fruity Sauce
Dessert - Pear and Hazelnut Shortcake

How to make pear and hazelnut shortcake:
Two seasonal favourites, pears and hazelnuts combined in a simple-to-make yet impressive-looking dessert. This delicious shortbread completes our autumnal menu.



Ingredients

4oz butter
2oz caster/superfine sugar
3oz hazelnuts skins removed and processed to a fine "flour"
5oz plain/all purpose flour
a little cold water
2 pears peeled, cored and sliced
1/4 pint double or whipping cream whipped
1 tablespoon icing/confectioners’ sugar
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Cream the butter until it is soft.
- Stir in the sugar, nuts and flour.
- Add water to form a soft dough.
- Form into two 7 inch rounds.
- Place on a greased baking sheet.
- Bake at 190 degrees C. for 6-10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.
- Cut one of the rounds into 8 segments.
- Put the cream onto the other round.
- Place pears slices onto the cream.
- Place the cut shortbread segments on top.
- Serve immediately sprinkled with a little icing sugar.


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I wonder just how much land it would take to feed a family of, say, 4? I know that if my family didn't buy fruit and veg we wouldn't have enough to eat but is self sufficiency down to amount of land or method of growing? Last year I overcrowded my small veg plot with counter-productive results like mildew and snail infestation that went unnoticed until we came to pick the tomatoes (all holes!). I wonder if anyone has ever been totally self providing or whether the local market and barter played...