Name: Damson Pie
Ingredients: 2 pounds damsons; ¾ cup sugar; pastry for pie

Damson Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

2 pounds damsons
¾ cup sugar
pastry for pie

Directions

Prepare

Pick and rinse the damsons, discarding any unsound ones.
For a plain pie, use moist sugar; for a better flavor, use crushed lump sugar.

Assemble and bake

Cover the pie as you would for an apple pie.
Bake and serve hot or cold.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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 tart fruit that forms the pie's filling and main flavor.
Sugar: Sweetens the tart damsons and helps balance their acidity.
Pastry: Forms the crust that encloses the filling and holds it during baking.

“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.