Preheat your oven to 350 Fahrenheit/180 Celsius.
Beat the butter until softened and creamy. Add your sugar and mix until combined. Approximately 3 minutes.
Add one egg at a time to the butter and sugar mixture and mix until combined. Then mix in the vanilla extract.
Combine your dry ingredients. Add the flour mixture in 3 parts: start with the flour, add half of the milk, combine and then add the second part of your flour mixture, then the rest of the milk and finish with mixing in your last bit of flour. Combine with your mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes.
Fold in the cut pear carefully so you don’t let the air out of your batter. Pour in a prepared loaf pan. Alternatively, you can use a bundt pan.
Bake until a toothpick comes out clean in your preheated oven. This takes around 50 minutes.