Tuesdays with Dorie: Baking with Dorie - Double-Pear Picnic Pie

      The 69th recipe I made with the Tuesdays with Dorie: Baking with Dorie group is Double-Pear Picnic Pie and can be found in the Baking with Dorie cookbook on page 266. 

       Ingredients: Sour Cream Pie Dough (page 350), fresh pears, dried pears (I used dried apricots), candied ginger, apricot jam, sugar, lemon zest and juice, cream, and turbinado sugar.

       This pie was meant to be a sort of “slab style” pie but since I bake for Mark, he thought he would rather have it just as a regular pie, so that’s how I styled it.  I made a 7” size instead of a 9x12” size as that seemed a better option with just the two of us here. For this size, I used half of all the ingredients listed and it worked out perfectly. The recipe gave various options for fruit, dried fruit, jam, etc. so one could really adapt it to whatever you have on hand or enjoy eating. The only thing I changed was using dried apricots as dried pears were not available at my market.

       The pie came together easily, baked for the specified time in the recipe, even though it was a smaller version, and retained it’s crispy texture for the two days it sat on the countertop before it disappeared in record time, this being an indication of how much Mark enjoyed the pie. Definitely repeat-worthy.

       If you would like to join in, just make it, bake it, and leave a link to your post at the Tuesdays with Dorie website: tuesdayswithdorie.wordpress.com. At the website you will find the postings for the current recipe, the list of recipes chosen each month, and some baking chit chat that is definitely helpful as well as fun.  We don’t publish Dorie's recipes here, but you can buy the book and have them ALL at your fingertips.