BAKED PEAR AND CUSTARD SLICE

Ingredients...100 gm butter / marg, 2/3 rds of a cup of castor sugar, lightly beaten, 1 cup of fresh , firm pears, chopped, 1 and 1/2 cups of self raising flour, 1/2 cup of milk, 1 cup vanilla custard ( store bought prepared custard is fine to use ). Preheat your oven to 160 deg C. Lightly grease and line a 24 cm x 24 cm square pan with baking paper. Place the butter / marg and sugar in a bowl and beat with your electric mixer until light and creamy. Add the egg with 3 tbs of the flour and beat well. Stir in the chopped pear pieces, the using a wooden spoon fold in the the remaining flour and milk alternatively. Spread half the mixture in the bottom of the prepared pan. Top with the custard then place spoonfuls of the remaining pear mixture over the custard to almost cover. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes or until golden in colour. Cool before carefully removing to a wire rack to cool completely before slicing.