Pear Pudding

The husband is a great forager and he picks up food on the way home sometimes when everything is fruiting. There is a pear tree where the owner does not like them picked but is OK with people taking ones that have fallen, so sometimes we just get a couple pears. When that happened last summer, husband and the girls made pear pudding to stretch the pears and they used this conventional recipe:

http://www.robertsplace.ca/recipes/bakedpearpudding.htm

They modified it to be this:

6 pears, cored and chopped in quarters
4 Tbsp maple syrup
4 Tbsp water
1 vanilla pod, cut in half and seeds scraped free

2 cups tapioca flour
1 cup coconut flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda

6 eggs
1 cup melted ghee
2/3 cup maple syrup

Preheat oven to 350.

Place pears in a pot with 4 Tbsp maple syrup, water, and vanilla seeds. Simmer for 5 minutes.

Grease a 9" pan.

Spread pears out in the pan.

Mix solid ingredients. Whisk eggs and add other liquids, then mix into the flour. Spread over the pears.

Bake 35-45 minutes.

This recipe is double what we actually made because we didn't have many pears. I just noticed that the original recipe listed the liquids that go in the pot as 4 teaspoons each, not tablespoons. But I like the way it came out, so I'm saying tablespoons here.