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Pear pie


Ingredients:6 people
  • shortcrust pastry:flour
    150 g
  • butter
    75g
  • fine salt
    1/2 teaspoon
  • sugar
    1/2 teaspoon
  • water
    approximately 1/2 glass
  • garnish:fairly small pears
    1 kg
  • sugar
    50g
  • water
    1 glass
  • vanilla
    1/2 clove
  • raspberry jelly
    1/2 jar


Preparation:
  • Preparation time:25 minutes
  • Cooking time:25 (th. 7 – 240°C)


[usr 2]

Prepare a shortcrust pastry:crumble the butter into the flour with your fingertips. Add salt, sugar and moisten with just enough water to obtain a non-sticky dough. Roll into a ball. Leave to stand for 1/4 hour.

Peel the pears, cut them in 4 and remove cores and seeds. Put them in a saucepan. Add sugar, water, vanilla. Cook gently for 20 minutes, then drain the pears and place them on absorbent paper to dry them well.

Roll out the dough. Line a lightly buttered tart pan. Arrange the pear quarters on the dough. Bake in a hot oven for 25 minutes.

While cooking, dissolve the raspberry jelly with the pear cooking syrup. Boil gently to obtain a thick syrup.

Remove from the oven and coat the still warm pie with this syrup.

Leave to cool.

Pear pie

Source:Les Bons Desserts.