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Pear Melba

Ingredients
1 Fresh Pear Per Person
Whipped Cream
Chopped Pecan Nuts
Cherries
1 tspn. Raspberry Jam Per Person
1 tspn. Orange Juice Per Person
2 Scoops Vanilla Ice Cream
Method
Peel pears, cut in two and remove cores. Brush with orange juice and use the rest of the juice mixed into the jam to soften it. Place pear, cut sideways, on serving dish. Fill cavity with a scoop of ice cream.

Sieve jam (mixed with orange juice) and pour a spoonful over the ice cream to coat it. Pipe a ring of cream, avoiding the ice cream, and scatter chopped nuts over the pears. Finish with a cherry and serve with plain vanilla wafers.