Inside-Out Pear Crumble

Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Wash the pears and remove any bad spots if necessary.

Combine all of the remaining ingredients except for the butter in a small bowl. Cut the butter into small chunks. Cut the butter into the flour and sugar mixture until it is crumbly and free of large chunks of butter.

Cut the tops off of the pears where the neck of the pear begins to widen out into the body. Using a melon baller or very small spoon, scoop out the middle of the larger part of the pear to remove the seeds and surrounding toughness, leaving the good flesh. Be careful not to puncture the bottom of the pear. Scoop out a little bit of the inside of the top of the pear, also.

Stuff the pears with the crumble filling and replace their tops. Place them in a greased bread pan or casserole dish, leaning them against the sides so they do not fall over.

Bake the pears for 30 minutes in the 350ºF oven. At around the 15-minute mark, you can take the pears out of the oven and turn them so that the sides that were facing the inside of the pan face the walls, so that they will brown evenly.

Enjoy warm.