Apple-pie...just this once
Dec. 15th, 2011 03:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iselimaHmm, after a long hiatus in the pie-baking field, have I recently picked up this old habit of mine again - with family members volunteering to test. Today, while watching Verdi's Macbeth, I prepared the dough and the Bramley apples (sitting on the sofa made it a relaxed job) and afterwards made it in to a pie. And of course, I proudly had to picture the result:
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It's a quite tasty pie, though I was careless and didn't read the recipe well - too much sugar in the dough - so now the pie is sweet but chewy instead of crumbly. In Dutch it's called sand-pie, and not without reason. It should be a bit like short-bread when baking cookies from the same dough.
This is said to be a Dutch pie (though to me it looks rather international), with sour apples, flaked almonds, a hand full of raisins and cinnamon.
It seemed a razor-sharp picture as a thumbnail on my phone, but it puts me to shame here on my journal . Next time better. :)
And do not worry (in case any one would do that, which seems doubtful on a low-traffic blog, ha ha): this should be the only time I will share the results of my cooking with the world...
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It's a quite tasty pie, though I was careless and didn't read the recipe well - too much sugar in the dough - so now the pie is sweet but chewy instead of crumbly. In Dutch it's called sand-pie, and not without reason. It should be a bit like short-bread when baking cookies from the same dough.
This is said to be a Dutch pie (though to me it looks rather international), with sour apples, flaked almonds, a hand full of raisins and cinnamon.
It seemed a razor-sharp picture as a thumbnail on my phone, but it puts me to shame here on my journal . Next time better. :)
And do not worry (in case any one would do that, which seems doubtful on a low-traffic blog, ha ha): this should be the only time I will share the results of my cooking with the world...
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Date: 2011-12-16 07:01 pm (UTC)Thanks for friending, btw. Will friend right back.
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Date: 2011-12-17 07:40 pm (UTC)Well it's Dutch apple-pie indeed, but here in London you see similar apple-pies as in Dutch shops. They taste also familiar, yet they're not called 'Dutch Apple-pie'. Makes me wonder if we Dutch have called something 'Dutch' which is in fact from every where :-)
'Oiebollen' however, I do not think that I've seen those elsewhere. Or 'kroketten', or 'rookworst'. Good that we're coming over for the holidays: we'll feast on those things we miss here!