Pear pie with almonds

1. Stage

Peel the pears, cut them in half and remove the core. Pour the sugar into the water, bring to a boil. Drop the pears into the boiling syrup and simmer for 10 minutes. Take the pears out of the syrup and leave to cool completely.

2. Stage

Mix all the ingredients for the dough and knead the dough. Cover with clingfilm and place in the refrigerator.

3. Stage

Vanilla cream. Bring the milk to the boil and pour in the vanilla extract.

4. Stage

With a hand mixer, whip the yolks with the sugar and stir in the starch. Here I had my first disaster... the mixer broke. Pour half of the hot milk into the egg mixture, beating constantly. Pour the whisked mixture back into the remaining milk and, stirring constantly, boil the pudding. As soon as the pudding begins to fall away from the walls of the pan, pour it into a cooled bowl. Leave to cool completely.

5. Stage

Almond cream. Beat the butter and sugar into a foam. Add one egg at a time, beating constantly.

6. Stage

Stir in the ground almonds and starch. Stir with a spatula.

7. Stage

Layer a 28cm. form with the dough, making high sides. To the almond cream intervene in parts vanilla cream. Pour the vanilla and almond cream on the pastry.

8. Stage

Cut each pear half into thin slices without separating them. Place the sliced pears on top of the cream. Like this.

9. Stage

Lay out all the pears, making distance between them.