Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Small blue marbles in a pie

Like I foresaw here, I did indeed meet a sweet blueberry pie after my little walk in the forest!

I'm not much of a baker. I like cooking, but baking has never really caught my interest. However, with the perfect amount of blueberries sitting on my kitchen counter, I had no choice but to make a blueberry pie. As we will see  later in this post - blueberry pie can never go wrong, even when the baker isn't really up to the task.
I love the look of blueberries. They shine like small marbles. 
I looked up pie crust recipes. They all contain butter, flour and water and it all has to be ice cold. Ain't nobody go time for that, so I decided on just mixing a cup of flour and 100 g (ca. 4 ounces) butter and threw it in the freezer for half an hour. I don't know what the water is for, but I suspect adding some of it might make the dough easier to work with. It is possible it could have improved the end result.
This is my dough. I think it looks good. 
The blueberry pies I've had before, has usually been just blueberries and a layer of pie crust also on top. For some reason I thought vanilla custard sounded good together with the blueberry pie, so I decided on adding that as a layer in the pie itself. I used this recipe, but decided to use a little over 1 cup of heavy cream and skip the milk since I wanted the custard to be really thick.
The brown sugar actually worked well with the custard. 
I think it was at this point I did my major mistake. I was beforehand a little worried about the amount of liquid in the filling of the pie (hence the skipping of milk in the custard), but this should also have made me realize that pre-baking the crust could be a good idea. Which I of course didn't do.
Dough, vanilla custard and blueberries. The dough should have been pre-baked before this. 
After 50 minutes in the oven, the crust seemed baked and the blueberries were cooked, but I could see through my glass cake pan that the crust at the bottom was not going to be crusty.
It looks like a mess, but at least a hot and delicious one. 
The blueberry pie with the vanilla custard was awesome, but very messy. I'm willing to give it a second try, but the pre-bake the crust before putting the vanilla custard and the blueberries in. An alternative is of course to make the blueberry pie and the vanilla custard separately, but what would the fun be in that?

Have you had any good ideas in the kitchen that in the end didn't turn out that great?

6 comments:

  1. Yes, how food looks is one element but you got the most important bit - what it tastes like - right! Tomorrow's shopping list might have pie on it as your post has made me hungry for blueberry pie!

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    1. I think blueberry pie is one of these things that can never taste wrong!

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  2. Oh wow. How delicious!! I'm going to have to give it a go.. with a bit of a vegan twist, of course.. ;-) YUM

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    1. It would be wonderful to know how to make it vegan!

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