Sunday, October 2, 2011

Blueberry pie

This was my first blueberry pie. I usually think of pie as something to make with excellent seasonal fruit, but this one was made with frozen blueberries and it was pretty great. The filling was blueberries, lemon zest, sugar and some tiny tapioca pearls.
I used the 'one pie dough to rule them all' recipe from Chez Pim, but with refined coconut oil instead of butter (80% by weight). (I liked the dough technique, where you push the fat into the flour with the heel of your hand to make long flakes. But cold coconut oil tends to be hard and lumpy, so I don't think it worked as well as butter. The recipe has you fold the dough several times, kind of like the laminated dough for croissants, but I found that the coconut oil dough was very fragile, and the carefully-formed layers were falling apart. I wonder whether whipping the oil might work -- Lagusta uses this technique for her croissants.)

I am nitpicking. The crust worked out fine, and the pie was delicious!

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