Yum, yum, yum. We’re half way through it. 🙂 Recipe from the latest GF, plums on offer in Ocado, which helped, as normally they’re a bit too pricey.

Also, the pastry is bordering on awesome. I used half a portion given in the magazine to make a small pie for us 2. So 113 g of cold butter got processed with 175 g of plain flour until looking like breadcrumbs. 25 g of icing sugar, 1 egg yolk and a splash of water to bind it. Chilled.

About 450 g of plums, stoned and chopped in quarters, along with 50 g of sugar and a tbsp of cornflour very quicky simmered, until they started giving away the juice. They they sat in a sieve over a bowl to let the juices go, about 30 mins.  Some marzipan got purchased too, golden marzipan from Sainsbury’s, very decent, unlike Dr Oetker’s bought last time. Not much to do with almonds.

When the pastry was chilled and ready, I lined my small round tin, sprinkled some ground almonds on it, then the plums, which had a small addition of almond extract. I’m not a massive fan myself and might just skip it next time. Chopped marzipan, around 100 g got scattered around the plums and then the top layer of the pastry, brushed with egg white and baked for less than 30 mins in 190 degrees.

I love the pastry. It’s buttery, flaky, not too sweet. I’m thinking it would be fantastic with apples.  It’s great. A keeper. 🙂