Spiced Pear and Yogurt Bread

Spiced Pear and Yogurt Bread is an easy and tasty quick bread featuring over ripe pears, yoghurt, and warm baking spices.

Have you noticed that your family tends to ‘cycle’ their preferred fruit intake, meaning they’ll eat all the bananas (apples, pears, etc.) that you buy, then suddenly move on to another favourite? Mine certainly does!  The uneaten fruits sit in degrading in the bowl for days, sometimes weeks until I find some way to use them up. I’m not complaining because if there were never any ‘distressed’ fruits, I wouldn’t be able to bake any apple sauce, apple butters, muffins, or fruity quick breads.

The latest fruit to be cast aside, doomed to all fruit bowl eternity, are pears. Fall is the perfect time to pick up a box of pears in the Okanagan and that is exactly what we did. I thought the three of us polished them off quite efficiently so I bought another round at the grocery store.

Truth be told, these pears were still from the Okanagan and probably from very close to where we bought ours…but either the boys were tired of pears or they weren’t as treasured as the first box that we bought directly from the orchard.

I had four pears in various states of disarray to cook with and I was up for the challenge! I grated them all up and decided to make a double batch of this Spiced Pear and Yogurt Bread.

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