Served Dish

Cherry Pie

Delicious served warm

Serves:8
Preheat Oven:200°C
Size of tart/flan pan:28cm
Pastry
  • 2 cups of flour
  • Dash of salt
  • 1 tbsp. of sugar
  • In a medium bowl, combine flour, salt and sugar
  • 2/3 cup of butter (~133g)
  • Using a fork, cut butter into flour until mixture resembles coarse crumbs
  • 2 tsp. of vinegar
  • 7 tbsp. of cold water
  • Add vinegar and water to flour mixture and work dough (with your hands) until smooth
  • Put 1/3 aside for top
  • Roll out remaining two thirds on a lightly floured surface to fit pan
  • Place a sheet of oven paper in the tart pan, then place rolled pastry in pan on top of paper
  • Trim edges and prick pastry all over with a fork and bake for 20 minutes and set aside
  • After approx. 5 minutes, check pastry. If it has swelled up in the middle, gently pat it down.
  • With remaining pastry, roll out in a rectangular form. With a pastry cutter, cut 12 1.5cm strips. Set aside.
Filling
  • 450g pkg of frozen cherries
  • 300g frozen raspberries
  • ¾ cup of sugar
  • Juice of ½ a lemon
  • ¼ cup of cornstarch
  • Place cherries, raspberries, sugar, lemon juice and cornstarch in a medium pot
  • Cook over low-med heat until cherries have thawed (mixture should still be cool)
  • Once bottom pastry has come out of the oven, pour filling into pan
  • 1 tbsp butter, softened
  • 2 tbsp. of milk
  • Dot pastry with butter
  • Place strips on pie in a lattice pattern
  • Brush pastry with milk and bake for 35 minutes
  • Take out of oven and place on rack to cool
  • Slide pie onto serving dish and remove oven paper