Title: Gingered Pear-And-Plum Brown Betty
Categories: Polkadot Dessert Fruit Lowfat
Yield: 8 Servings

1/4	c	Apple juice
2	tb	Sugar
2	tb	All-purpose flour
2	tb	Lemon juice
5	c	Thinly sliced peeled pear (2 pounds)
2 1/2	c	Thinly sliced plum -- (3/4 pound)
		Vegetable cooking spray
3/4	c	Gingersnap crumbs -- divided (12 cookies)
1/2	c	Quick-cooking oats
1/3	c	Firmly packed brown sugar
2	tb	All-purpose flour
3	tb	Margarine -- melted

Combine the first 4 ingredients in a large bowl, and stir well. Add fruit, and toss well.

Place half of the fruit mixture in an 11 x 7-inch baking dish coated with cooking spray, and sprinkle with 1/2 cup gingersnap crumbs. Add the remaining fruit mixture to dish.

Combine the remaining gingersnap crumbs, oats, brown sugar, and 2 tablespoons flour; stir well. Add margarine, and toss well. Sprinkle crumb mixture over the fruit mixture.

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until the fruit is tender. Yield: 8 servings.

Recipe By: Cooking Light, Sept. 1995, page 136

From: Lisa Date: 07-19-96 (20:12) The Polka Dot Cottage, a BBS with a taste of home. 1-201-822-3627. By fatfree-request@fatfree.com on Jun 16, 1997

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