Peach Pie
 
 
Serves: one 9 inch pie
Ingredients
For Pie crust:
  • 2 ½ cups flour
  • 225 grams cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
  • 6-8 tbsp ice cold water
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • pinch salt
  • ½ tsp vanilla
  • pinch ground cinnamon
For the filling:
  • 10 peaches, sliced (or 1½ cans of canned peaches)
  • ⅓ cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp corn flour
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • pinch nutmeg
  • ¼ cup butter
Instructions
For the pie crust:
  1. Dice or grate the butter and return it to the freezer while you prepare the flour mixture.
  2. Place the flour, salt, cinnamon (optional) and sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade and pulse a few times to mix. Add the butter. Pulse 8 to 12 times, until the butter is the size of peas. You can also use a pastry cutter or your hands, if you do not have a food processor.
  3. With the machine running, pour the vanilla and ice water (a tbsp. at a time) and pulse the machine until the dough begins to form a ball. Dump out on a floured board and roll into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  4. Cut the dough in half.
  5. Roll each piece on a well-floured board or between two parchment papers into a circle. Fold the dough in half, place in a pie pan, and unfold to fit the pan. Repeat rolling out process with the top crust. If you want to make a lattice you could do it in advance and keep it in the fridge too. Keep rolled out dough in the refrigerator.
For the filling:
  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together the sliced peaches, sugars, flour, corn flour, ground cinnamon, nutmeg.
  3. Line the crust line pie pan with sliced peaches mixture. Drop pieces of butter on top.
  4. Top with lattice strips of pie crust.
  5. Bake at 180 C for 45 minutes, or until crust is golden. When baking time is complete, switch oven off and let the pie sit in the cooling oven. Once cool, remove from oven and slice and serve, Best when eaten fresh.
Recipe by The Novice Housewife at https://novicehousewife.com/2017/08/08/peach-pie/