Instructions: Preheat oven to 375. In medium bowl, combine brown sugar, flour, & ginger. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle half the crumbs (about 3/4 c.) evenly in pie shell. Coarsely chop 4 pear halves & scatter over the crumbs. Cut 7 pear halves lenghtwise from wide end almost to the stem end in 1/4 inch thick slices. Arrange on crumb-pear mixture with wide ends of pears around edge of pie. Gently press down on pear halves to fan slices. Coarsely chop the remaining pear half & fill space in center of pie. Sprinkle pears evenly with remaining crumbs. Bake 40-45 minutes, until crumbs are browned & pears are tender. Remove to wire rack to cool. Serve at room temperature.

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