Baked Pears With Lemon Sauce - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 tablespoon arrowroot
1 1/2 cups milk
1 cinnamon stick
2 grated lemons, zest of
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup honey
6 fresh firm pears
1/2 cup water
4 -5 whole cloves

Preparation

Make lemon sauce ahead of time: Dissolve arrowroot in a little milk; place in a saucepan with rest of milk and cinnamon stick.
Stir and cook over low heat, stirring, until slightly thickened.
Stir in lemon peel, lemon juice and 1/4 cup of the honey.
Remove from heat, remove and discard cinnamon stick, cover and place in refrigerator to chill.
Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F.
Halve and core pears; place in a glass baking dish.
In a small saucepan, bring 1/4 cup honey, water and cloves just to boiling point, but do not boil; pour over pears.
Bake until pears are fork-tender (time for this varies considerably depending on firmness of pears--really hard ones can take as much as an hour).
Remove and discard whole cloves.
Serve warm with chilled lemon sauce.