baking for one: pear pie
Dec. 2nd, 2019 05:08 pmI just finished reading
madbaker's Gooey Apple Pie recipe, and it made me hungry for pie crust dough, but not for anything that complicated, nor that large.
So instead I made myself a mini pie:
pre-heat oven to 200 C
crust:
3 T flour
1 T butter
pinch of salt
a few drops of water
Mix flour, butter, and salt till well combined. Add just enough water to make a dough that holds together without being sticky.
filling
1 small ripe pear, chopped (~1/4 cup , and not more than 1/2 cup total)
1 t rosehip flour
1 pinch each of cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg
1/2 t butter
Mix the filling ingredients well. Roll out the crust to about 15 cm circumference. Add the filling, fold the top over, and seal the edges like for a pasty. Cut three slits in the top for steam to escape.
Bake till the crust is just cooked and filling is warm (10 min? I used the nose alarm, not the clock)
While I could have happily eaten the whole thing by myself, David arrived just as it was coming out of the oven, so I shared part of it with him. It was yummy. He thinks that it should either also have a pinch of sugar in the filling, or be eaten with ice cream. However, he didn't think of the latter till we had finished it. I, on the other hand, thought that it was quite perfect as it is, and needed no extra sugar. If you try this at home, please let me know if you did it with, or without sugar, and how you liked it.
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