Pear-ginger quickbread

I was still trying to work my way through the bag of pears, and wanted to use up some crystallised ginger lurking in the pantry cupboard. Sadly, when it came time to chop and toss in the ginger I discovered it was missing, so added a hasty shake of ground ginger instead. It was very light, fluffy and sweet - and there was nothing left of the two loaves to freeze.

The following recipe was a variation from the Barmy Baker's blog:

1/4 cup butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/4 tsp vanilla
healthy dash of ground ginger
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
zest of one orange, minced
1/3 cup yoghurt
1 1/2 cups pears, peeled and diced

1. Preheat oven to 160 and grease and flour a couple of loaf tins
2. Cream butter, sugar and minced orange zest until fluffy
3. Add eggs and vanilla
4. Add yogurt
5. Sift dry ingredients together then mix quickly into wet ingredients
6. Fold in pears
7. Bake until set (about 40 minutes), cool in tins then turn out to cool.