Spiced-Pear Pie

Name: Spiced-Pear Pie
Yield: Makes 2 pies
Ingredients: 5 cups all purpose flour; 2 teaspoons salt; 2 teaspoons sugar; 8 ounces chilled lard, diced, frozen; 1 cup (2 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces; 1/2 cup (or more) ice water; 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar; 16 whole cloves; 4 cinnamon sticks; 2 whole star anise; 1/2 vanilla bean, chopped; 1 1/3 cups (packed) golden brown sugar; 6 tablespoons all purpose flour; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 9 pounds Bosc pears, peeled, halved, cored, each half cut into 4 slices; 4 tablespoons heavy whipping cream; Milk; Raw sugar; Brandied-Prune Ice Cream (click for recipe)

By Jeanne Thiel KelleyPhotographer Gary Moss

October 31, 2005

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