Harvest time!

How to make a Poire d'Anjou (Pear Cake)

First, fossick around in a garden centre

choosing the ‘just right’ tree

with promising shoots and sturdy roots

to be planted with lip-licking glee!

A year, maybe three, of patience

before it will start to fruit.

Thinning a discipline painful

yet essential there is no dooubt.

Waiting for harvest to ripen

can be a difficult part.

Yet smelling their perfume when ready

zooms straight to the heart.

Heat up your oven correctly

mix your ingredients now

Flour and honey with butter

warm milk – straight from the cow?

Anticipation and trembling

juice running right down the chin

Out of the oven its coming….

HELP!

I can’t get it out of the tin!

Brenda W.
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