Peach  Pie

I love peaches and what better way to enjoy them than in a pie. I have some canned peaches that won’t go to waste.  Peach Pie will make a nice afternoon break from writing for the blog. For the crust I use my no fail pie crust.

As time goes by, I get more comfortable with pie dough and I experiment with different flavours and textures.  Sometimes I make and throw things out and other times I write the recipes for you because they work out.  My nonna Emilia canned peaches in the summer and we used them throughout the year.  We canned most fruits and of course anything that came out of the garden. Once we got a freezer, then we froze vegetables.

Canning was a fun process.  The women rotated from house to house and everyone helped each other. It was the Italian assembly line.  As I grew older one of my favourites was the canned cherries because they sat in liqueur.  Today we have many choices at the supermarket; however, living in the sun  parlous of Ontario I am privy to some of the best fruits and vegetables in the country.   Want to can your own peaches?  Try this:  http://pickyourown.org/peachescanning.htm

I also like to use peaches or apricots in savoury dishes and this is one of my favourites:  https://recipesatmytable.com/pork-lovers-heaven/

Ingredients

The crust

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 tbsp cold butter
• 3 tbsp cold tender flake lard
• 1 egg
• 3 tbsp ice cold water
• 1 tsp white vinegar

The filling

• canned peaches
• 1/2cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp cardamon
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1 12/ tbsp vutter
• 1 tbsp egg white( to wash pie)

Process

This pie dough comes together easily. Put the flour and salt into a food processor and pulse.  Next slice in the lard and butter and pulse until dough looks like peas.  Whisk together the egg, cold eater and white vinegar and pour into the food processor.  Pulse until dough comes together.  Gather it on your kitchen counter and slice off 1/3.

This is a beautiful silky pie dough.  No breakage here.  

 

In a large bowl, I place the canned peaches, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamon and lemon juice. 

Next I stir in the flour and the vanilla extract. 

I cut the butter into small cubes and stir this all together. 

Pour it all into the pie crust. 

Roll out the other 1/3 of the dough to make the top. 

 

I fold over the edges, crimp it and then white wash it and try to get creative. LOL Place in a 420 F oven for 15 minutes and then lower the temperature to 350 F for another 40 minutes. 

All done and cooling. 

Look at how flaky and delicious it looks.  We served it with ice-cream while it was warm.