Pink Pear Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients

12 pear halves
8 maraschino cherries
1 (3 oz.) pkg. cream cheese
crisp lettuce
7 Tbsp. cherry juice, divided
dash of salt
1/4 c. finely chopped pecans

Preparation

Chill pear halves.
Cut cherries into small pieces.
Soften cream cheese; add 1 tablespoon cherry juice, cherries and salt. Blend thoroughly.
Add pecans and mix well.
Heap cream cheese mixture into hollow of pears.
(Tint outside of pears with remaining cherry juice, optional.)