MomsMenu.com Recipe Finder David's Pear Pie

3/4 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 1/2 tablespoon lemon or lime juice
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 1/2 tablespoons flour
1/8 teaspoon allspice
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter (or margarine)
4 to 4 1/2 cups cored, peeled, coarse
chopped fresh "cooking pears"

Melt butter slowy in a large sauce pan. Toss pears with remaining
ingredents and add to sauce pan. Cook on medium high heat,
stirring often, for about 20 minutes. When pears are crisp-tender
and juice is thick, remove from heat and cool. If using your own
home made pie crust, roll out prepared pie dough while pears are
cooling. Prepare pie crust into deep dish pie pan. Pre-heat oven
to 425 degrees. Spoon pie filling into crust lined dish. Do not
over fill. Cover pie with a top crust, crimp edges, cut slashes in
top crust to allow steam to escape while baking. Brush top crust
with milk or butter and sprinkle with table sugar. Bake 15 minutes,
then lower oven heat to 325 degrees. Bake 40 to 50 minutes more,
until top is brown, and filling is bubbly. Remove pie from oven
and cool for 1 hour (or longer) before slicing.