Stout Pear Gingerbread
Ingredients:
½ cup melted butter
½ cup brown sugar (packed)
1 egg
1 Tbs. Grated fresh ginger
2 tsp. Grated orange zest
2 ½ cups flour
1 and ½ tsp. Baking soda
1 Tbs. Dry mustard
1 tsp. Ground ginger
1 tsp. Ground cinnamon
½ tsp. Salt
½ cup light molasses
½ cup honey
1 cup Alaskan Stout (boiling)
2 ripe pears, peeled, cored and cut into large chunks
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Butter a 9-inch round cake pan.Pour melted butter into large mixing bowl, add brown sugar and mix well. Stir in egg, fresh ginger and orange zest. Set mixture aside in separate bowl. Sift together flour, baking soda, mustard, ground ginger, cinnamon and salt. In third bowl mix together molasses, honey, boiling Alaskan Oatmeal Stout. Fold in pears.Add 1/3 of dry ingredients to butter mixture, stir well. Then add 1/3 of molasses mixture, stir well. Add another 1/3 of each, then the final 1/3 of each, stirring well after each addition. Pour batter into pan and bake for about 1 hour until center springs back when touched. Cool on rack 10 minutes then remove from pan.