Pear, Cream Cheese, Date, and Prosciutto Canapés
2 medium pears
20 pitted dates
7 tablespoons cream cheese
3 ounces thinly sliced prosciutto
40 small fresh mint leaves
• On a cutting board hold 1 pear, stem side up, and cut down through pear just to right of stem, cutting off largest piece of fruit possible and avoiding core.
• Turn pear so cut side faces you and cut again in same manner.
• Cut off remaining 2 sides of pear in same manner and discard core.
• Put 1 piece, cut side down, on cutting board and cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices.
• Cut remaining pieces of pear in same manner.
• Repeat procedure with remaining pear.
• You should have about forty 1/4-inch-thick slices.
• Halve each date lengthwise and fill indentation in each half with 1/2 teaspoon cream cheese.
• Cut prosciutto into 3- by 3/4-inch strips.
• Top a pear slice with a mint leaf and top mint leaf with a date half, filling side down.
• Fold a piece of prosciutto lengthwise in half and wrap crosswise over pear and date, tucking ends underneath.
Make more canapés in same manner.
Yield: 40 canapés.
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