Tuesday 2 January 2018

CHERRY PIE


Part of trying to live waste free is avoiding food waste. Realising that food takes a lot of resources to bring food to our tables. I think we take for granted that we just go and get the food we want. I often think about those people who do not have access to food and that their attitude towards the waste of food would be much different to ours. I heard Geraldine Cox (who runs an orphanage in Cambodia)  speak once and she told the story of one of the children who she brought to Australia for medical treatment. He could not believe that we did not want to eat fresh food when it was so readily available, he could not understand why you would willingly buy processed food. The other thing he said was he couldn't understand why we cooked more than we needed and had leftovers in our fridge. He thought that was wasteful. When I heard this story years ago it resonated with me. Long before my Eco journey I did think about food waste and how food is valued more by those who don't have it (naturally) and how we as a society just take it all for granted. Anyway with this all in mind, the cherries that were starting to go soft were taken out of the fridge and given a new lease of life in the form of  Cherry Pie.




CHERRY PIE
Waste - paper bags from flour and sugar and butter wrapping paper
Composted - Egg Shell and cherry pips


CHERRY PIE FILLING
600 grams of cherries
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons of cornflour
1/3 cup of sugar
1 tablespoon of lemon juice

METHOD

1. Take all the pips out of the cherries
2. Place cherries, cinnamon, sugar and lemon juice in a pan and cook until the cherries are soft and squishy.
3. Add the cornflour and stir and it thickens.
4. If it is thicker than you would like just add a bit of water until it is the consistency that you desire
5. Set aside to cool

PASTRY

1 1/3 cups of plain flour
1/2 cup of self raising flour
1/4 cup of custard powder or icing sugar or (I used organic plain flour as it has a sweet taste)
1/4 cup caster sugar
150grams of butter
2 tablespoons of iced water
1 egg

METHOD

1. Place all dry ingredients with butter in a food processor or bowl and mix through until the butter is      mixed through. Like fine breadcrumbs.
2.  Add the egg and the iced water and mix through
3. Put onto a floured surface and knead it until it is smooth 
4. Roll it and wrap it in a beeswax wrap and place in the fridge for up to 30minutes
5. Take out and divide into two. One bit larger than the other. 
6. Roll out and put into pie dish
7. Add the cherry mix
8. Roll out the other piece of pastry for the top. You can make a lattice top or a flat top depending on        what you like.
9. Use milk or egg and use a pastry brush to glaze over the top of the pastry. You can also sprinkle          sugar if  you like.
10. Bake in a moderate oven until the top is golden brown.





My mouth was actually watering as I took this photo and I can assure you it tasted as good as it looked. Thanks for stopping by .......  Eco Granny.






















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