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Apricot pie


Ingredients:6 to 8 people
  • flour
    250 g
  • butter
    150g
  • egg
    1
  • salt
    1 pinch
  • water
    3 tablespoons
  • apricots
    1 kg
  • sugar
    250 g


Preparation:
  • Preparation time:30 minutes
  • Cooking time:45 minutes


Difficulty:[usr 3 ]

Wash and pit the apricots.

Macerate them with half the sugar for one hour.

Make a pie dough by quickly mixing the flour, the butter in pieces, the whole egg, the salt and very little water.

Shape into a ball and let stand for at least 1/4 hour.

Butter a movable-bottomed mold with fairly high edges. Garnish it with 2/3 of the dough spread over a good 1/2 cm.

Fill with the apricots (do not add juice if any has formed) sprinkle with the remaining sugar.

Cover with dough and seal the edges with a little water.

Preheat the oven to. 7 – 240°C.

Brown the surface with a spoonful of sweetened milk and put in a hot oven for about 45 minutes.

Unmold right out of the oven.

Apricot pie

Source:Les Bons Desserts. Baudoin.