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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes,rec.food.cooking
- From: japlady@nwu.edu (Rebecca Radnor)
- Subject: Summer pandowdy
- Message-ID: <199412091848.AA236548934@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 18:49:02 GMT
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- SUMMER PANDOWDY
- Preparation time: 30 minutes
- Cooking time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 6 to 8 servings
-
- Usually made with a rolled sweet crust baked on top of fruit, the crust is
- "dowdied" by pushing the crust into the fruit to soften before serving or
- by inverting the crust during serving to the bottom of the serving bowl.
- Serve this warm from the oven or at room temperature, with or without ice
- cream.
-
- 1 1/2 pound nectarines, pitted, cut into eighths
- 1 pint fresh blueberries
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Grated rind (colored part only) from 1/2 lemon
- 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon cold unsalted butter, cut into slivers
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- Crust:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 5 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into bits
- 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon sugar
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- 1. Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat the oven to 425
- degrees. Butter a deep-dish pie pan or an 8-inch-square baking dish; set
- aside.
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- 2. Gently stir together the fruit, brown sugar, cinnamon, lemon rind and
- juice in a large bowl. Pour the fruit into the prepared pan. Scatter the 1
- tablespoon butter slivers over the fruit.
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- 3. For the crust, put flour, 3 tablespoons sugar and the baking powder in a
- large mixing bowl. Whisk to combine. Work the bits of butter into the flour
- mixture with a pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Add
- 3/4 cup of the cream and stir with a fork. The mixture will be stringy.
- Knead with your hand about 45 seconds and it will become smooth.
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- 4. Roll the dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Trim it to about 1/2 inch larger
- than the baking dish. Cut a small circle out of the center of the crust to
- serve as a steam vent, and carefully place the crust over the fruit. Do not
- press the crust against the sides of the pan. Reroll the scraps and cut as
- decorations if you desire. Brush the crust with the remaining 1 tablespoon
- of cream and sprinkle with the teaspoon of sugar.
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- 5. Place the pandowdy on a baking sheet with raised sides and bake 10
- minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees and loosely cover the
- crust with a foil tent, shiny side out. Continue baking until the crust is
- golden and the fruit bubbly, 35 to 45 minutes. Either "dowdy" the crust now
- by pushing it under the surface of the fruit or serve crust side down in
- bowls.
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