Katie’s Scrumptious Pie Pastry

| Hadass E

Our master pie-maker Katie Anderson is sharing some of her secrets with us! Here is the recipe for the wonderful, flaky pastry underlying the pies we made for our fundraiser. This recipe makes 1 lbs of dough.

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Katie’s Scrumptious Pie Pastry

Ingredients

  • 0.5 lbs flour, soft pastry
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2.5 oz butter
  • 2.5 oz shortening
  • 3 oz ice water

Instructions

  1. Ensure butter and shortening are COLD.
  2. Cut fat into cubes.
  3. Mix flour and salt. Add cubed fat into dry mixture.
  4. Work dough with cool hands, until fat is in pea-sized bits.
  5. Add COLD water, mix together lightly, just until incorporated.

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Sharing Our Pie Recipes!

| Hadass E

Almost 200 lucky people ordered a pie from us at our fall windup and fundraiser, but if you didn’t get a chance, you can always make one yourself following our instructions! Or at least most of them … there might be some deep dark family secrets we don’t share …

To start you off, many people avoid gluten nowadays, and our gluten-free crustless pumpkin pies were made by Jeanine Friesen of The Baking Beauties, author of The Everything Guide to Living Gluten-Free.

You can find Jeanine’s recipe here at The Baking Beauties. Enjoy!

Stay tuned for more pie recipes as we prepare to cook and bake our way through the weekend!

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Baking Instructions for Fruit Share Pies

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Thank you to everyone who supported our Pie and Cider Fundraiser!

We sold close to 200 pies and had a fabulous time carving pumpkins, eating pie and playing apple games on pick-up day.

In case you missed the baking instructions, here’s how to bake your frozen pies. Remember, keep them frozen until your ready to bake them.

Apple Pie

Bake from frozen at 350°F for 45-60 minutes.

Pie is ready when bubbling and crust is golden brown.

If crust is turning too brown, loosely cover pie with aluminum foil and continue to bake until filling is bubbling.

Cool on rack for 1 to 2 hours.

Serve with ice cream.

 

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Season Windup and Pie + Cider Pickup Day!

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A big THANK YOU to everyone who ordered pie and cider from us. We sold almost 200 apple and pumpkin pies and lots of delicious John Boy Farms’ cider!

All of the orders must be picked up at our Annual Wind Up, this SATURDAY OCTOBER 5, 2013 between 2-4pm at 525 Beresford Avenue (Churhill Park United Church). You MUST pick up your order at this time (any pies/items NOT picked up will be donated to our favourite local organizations).

If you missed out this year, you’re still welcome to come to our Annual Wind Up! Poco-Razz farm has graciously donated over 100 pumpkins that we are going to be carving, we’ll have our big raffle draw for the Excalibur 9 tray food dehydrator, and you can purchase a slice of pie and cup of coffee to enjoy at the event.

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