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I have been making apple and pear sauces for years. Both fruits are cheap and easy to works with since no peeling is involved. Fruit sauces can be eaten straight from the jar, served on buttered bread, but they are also excellent as tarts and cookies fillings and as I have recently learnt, also as an egg substitute (click here to see a delicious Eggless Applesauce Cake recipe<\/a>). I don’t remember how I had this idea, but probably one day I got bored with the pear sauce I had been making for years, saw a jar of prunes whiles reaching for the sugar and decided to experiment. The result was so satisfactory, I simply stopped making other pear sauce versions and prunes have become the obligatory ingredient of my pear sauces.<\/p>\n

Even though both prunes and pears have strong flavours, neither of them gets lost in this combination. The sweetness of the pear is completed by a slight tanginess of the prune creating a harmonious final taste. With their fiber, vitamins and other health benefits prunes add a healthy accent to this sweet treat.<\/p>\n

Before I pass to the recipe details, I would like to thank Stefanie from A Dash of Sugar and Spice<\/a>, Shannon from Just as Delish<\/a> and Charles from 5 Euro Food<\/a> for the Versatile Blogger Award I have recently got from all of them. I feel honoured to get this triple (!) award.<\/p>\n

The Award has two rules. The first one is to say 7 random things about oneself that others might not know and the second one is to pass the award to 7 other bloggers. I found it very hard to think of the things which might be interesting and hope the following random facts don’t make you yawn:<\/p>\n

1. I used to be a vegetarian for a year when I was 16 or 17. The smell of my mum’s roast chicken made me quit.<\/p>\n

2. I used to be a huge Depeche Mode fan as a teenager and still love listening to their old songs sometimes. Their concert last year was one of the most moving moments of the past several years of my life. Of course this one is among my favourites (althought this is not my concert):<\/p>\n