Pear Bread

Adapted from "Buster Bucks" at http://busterbucks.hubpages.com/hub/Worlds-Best-Pear-Bread

1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup applesauce (or pear sauce = mash up pear in its own juice)
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
3 cups flour
1 t baking soda
2 t baking powder
1 t cinnamon
1 t nutmeg
1/2 t ginger
1.5 t salt
1.5 cups peeled chopped pears

Mix wet ingredients. Mix dry ingredients. Fold dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Add pears and mix. (Add nuts if you want.) Bake in two greased loaf pans at 325 for about an hour (check after 45 minutes), or until a toothpick comes out clean. You can sprinkle the tops of the loaves with sugar before baking, which will make a delicious crust. Let cool for ten minutes, then remove from pans.

Next time I make this I will try to decrease the sugar. As it is tastes like delicious dessert bread, but I would like to make it into a more healthy snack.