Serves 6 Ingredients
4 eggs
150g caster sugar
150g plain flour
5ml baking powder
95g butter (melted then cooled)
90ml milk
rind of lemon
650g pears (peeled, cored and thinly sliced.)
5ml vegetable oil
25ml breadcrumbs Method
Put eggs and sugar in bowl standing over a pan of simmering water. Whisk mixture for 10 minutes with electric mixer. Take off heat, continue whisking for further 5 minutes. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt. Gently fold half the ingredients into the egg mix. Slowly pour the butter into the mixture being careful not to knock out too much air. Fold in the lemon, milk and remaining flour. Fold in pears. Grease insides of 23cm cake tin with oil. Then sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Pour mixture in the tin and bake at 180C for about 40 minutes. When cooked leave to rest for five minutes before turning out. The torte can be served warm or cold with vanilla ice cream. | 
