Summer Cherry Pie
This cherry pie will be a tasty treat for the whole family!
Ingredients
Method
PASTRY CRUST:
- 1+1/2 cup flour
- 110 grams butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1+1/2 tablespoon cold water
FILLING:
- 800 grams fresh cherries (pitted and remove stalks off)
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 cup cornflour
- To make pastry crust, sift flour.
- Cut in butter until resembles crumbs.
- Stir in sugar.
- Add water and then egg yolk.
- Mix together.
- To make filling: In a pot at moderate heat add pitted cherries, sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and cornflour and stir.
- After approx 15 minutes take off heat and grease 20cm flan dish. Line with crust pastry.
- Then spread cherry filling over pastry and loosely cover with tinfoil. Bake in pre-heated oven at 180c for 50 minutes.