Fresh Plum Pie
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2 hours 20 minutes
Plum pie is a delicious alternative to apple pie, very sweet and tart when plums are in season. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream for dessert.
Nicola
4 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- Pastry
- 2 1/2 cups (315g) plain flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 200g butter
- 1 cup (220g) caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
- 1 egg
- Filling
- 2 cups sliced plums, juice reserved
- 2 lemons, juiced
- 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
- 2 heaped tablespoons cornflour
- To Serve
- icing sugar
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:1hour ›
Extra time:1hour chilling ›
Ready in:2hours20min
- Pastry: Mix together flour and baking powder. Add remaining pastry ingredients and work into a pastry dough. Cover and chill for 1 hour.
- Grease a pie dish and lightly flour a work surface. Cut dough in half and roll out one piece. Line the bottom and sides of the tin with pastry dough.
- Filling: Place reserved plum juice, lemon juice and cornflour into a small pan. Heat until thickened. Let cool, then drizzle over pastry-lined tin.
- Layer plums on top and sprinkle with vanilla sugar.
- Preheat oven to 180 C.
- Roll out remaining pastry dough and place over the plums, or create a decorative crust with thin strips of dough. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour.
- To Serve: Dust with icing sugar.
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