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How to make pear cream pie

Quick ReadOur food columnist unearthed this gem after sifting through her collection of old cookbooks and clipped recipes

Pears mingle nicely in this cream pie

Photo credit: Newsday/Tony Jerome | Pears mingle nicely in this cream pie

Sylvia Carter

Sylvia Carter Sylvia Carter

Carter writes a food column for Newsday.

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Lately, I've been sorting cookbooks.

Hundreds of cookbooks I can't part with are in boxes. I will never give away volumes by Richard Olney, who taught me much about French cooking, or Paula Peck's "The Art of Fine Baking." I can't give up Marcella Hazan's books on Italian cooking. The list goes on and on.

There are books I never cook from but love looking through, books on Tibetan cuisine...

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