Name: Plum Pie
Ingredients: 1/2 teacupful of water over

Plum Pie

Ingredients

1/2 teacupful of water over

Directions

Prepare

Wash the plums.
Put them in a small pie dish.
Pour 1/2 teacupful of water over them.
Add sugar to taste.

Bake and serve

Cover the plums with a short crust.
Bake the pie until golden brown.

By T. R. Allinson. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Plums (in the method): Provide the fruit filling that gives the pie its main flavour and juiciness.
Sugar (in the method): Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the plums.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.