First, I made a pie crust. It was super simple. I mixed 6 Tbs of butter and 1 1/2 cups of flour in a food processor. Then I drizzled in some ice water until it made "coarse crumbs" (or whatever that means). I rolled out the dough and put in in my pie pan. Here it is:
See, I can make pie crust! Suck it, universe. Lena is fearless.
I mixed together some peaches (from my CSA), lemon juice, sugar, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg. I decided to stray from the recipe and throw in some blueberries as well.
Then I mixed some rolled oats, flour, salt, cinnamon, brown sugar and melted butter together. I was supposed to add minced almonds, but I didn't have any, so I skipped it.
Then I baked it! It was surprisingly easy. Here's a slice of my pie.
It wasn't the best pie crust I'd ever had - the part on top was pretty good, but the bottom part could have been flakier. Zack liked it though and he's pretty much my target audience. I've got a huge bag of apricots this week, so I'll probably give pie crust another try.....stay tuned.
4 comments:
Way to go Lena!! I too, for some unknown reason, am petrified of pie crust!! You made it look so easy that I just mihgt give it a whirl!!
Yay! We just made that exact same pie crust (but a double batch) for a peach pie!
All butter pie crust is pretty hard- you should try part butter part shortening.
To make a really flakey pie crust you cannot overhandle the dough. Also, use the absolute minimum of ice water. I have found that you must watch someone (who's pie crust you really like) to see how this is done. This is one thing that you cannot really learn from a recipe. (MaryJo was my mentor.) Kudos to you for trying!
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