Instructions: Preheat oven to 350 . Place hazelnuts on a baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes, stirring once. Turn nuts out onto towel. Roll up towel, rub off skins. Chop nuts; set aside. Combine pear and next 6 ingredients (pear through egg white) in a large bowl. Combine hazelnuts, all-purpose flour, and last 5 ingredients (all-purpose flour through soda), and add to pear mixture, stirring just until flour mixture is moist. Spoon batter into an 8X4 inch loaf pan coated with baking spray. Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool bread in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack, and then remove from pan.

Cool bread completely on wire rack.

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