Damson Pie
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare
Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
Place the damsons in a dish and sprinkle with moist sugar.
Add a little water to the dish.
Bake and serve
Cover the dish with puff pastry, sealing the edges.
Bake for 30 minutes until golden brown.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Damsons
- Provide the fruit filling, whose tartness and juices form the pie's body.
- Moist sugar
- Sweetens the fruit and draws out juice that softens it during baking.
- Puff paste
- Forms a flaky, golden crust that seals the fruit inside the dish.
The step that matters
Sealing the pastry edges. A tight seal keeps the juices from escaping during baking, so the fruit cooks in its own syrup rather than leaking and drying out.
“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.
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