Hot water crust pastry

meritaten

let us know how you get on! its ages since I made hot water crust pastry, but as others have said its far more pliable and forgiving than short crust or puff.

I have started making suet crust pastry again too - I had forgotten how easy peasy it is to make - and how totally delish it is!

mrbadexample

meritaten wrote: »

let us know how you get on! its ages since I made hot water crust pastry, but as others have said its far more pliable and forgiving than short crust or puff.

I have started making suet crust pastry again too - I had forgotten how easy peasy it is to make - and how totally delish it is!

I love suet pastry! There's a bacon and onion roll recipe on here somewhere that uses it. :drool:

Well, I have to say I didn't find the pastry easy to work with at all. It's so pliable that when you've rolled out a bit for the lid, or whatever, you can't pick it up (even on a rolling pin) without it completely losing its shape.

Having said that, I've got some sort of raised gooseberry pie in the oven as a test piece. I'll know how well I've done in an hour or so.

JIL

mrbadexample wrote: »

I love suet pastry! There's a bacon and onion roll recipe on here somewhere that uses it. :drool:

Well, I have to say I didn't find the pastry easy to work with at all. It's so pliable that when you've rolled out a bit for the lid, or whatever, you can't pick it up (even on a rolling pin) without it completely losing its shape.

Having said that, I've got some sort of raised gooseberry pie in the oven as a test piece. I'll know how well I've done in an hour or so.

Try rolling out on a square of floured tin foil then take it up to the pie and sort of fold it over. If that makes sense.
Hope the pie tasted good.

mrbadexample

Ok, so I made the pie. As I said, I found it difficult to work with the warm pastry. I had enough left over to make a second, smaller pie which I did when the pastry was cold - it wasn't difficult to work at all.

The big pie leaked a bit when I put the jelly in (gooseberry pie with cider apple jelly), so when I took it out of the tin the sides were a bit soggy:



So I made a foil hat to protect the top and put it back in the oven this morning at a high temperature, just to toast the sides a bit. I now have this:



If it tastes as good as it looks I'll be pretty happy. The pastry on the bottom isn't very strong and almost fell through when I lifted it. It might be a bit soggy, but I'll find out when it's chilled and I cut it.

The smaller, hand moulded pie also looks good:



This one's rhubarb and I've filled it with a standard orange jelly.

Of course, the proof of the pudding...

rosieben

They look lush! You put me to shame, I've been so lazy about baking but you've spurred me on to make more of an effort this coming week. I'm liking the sound of gooseberries in cider apple jelly Can you give us a clue where to find that recipe please?

mrbadexample

rosieben wrote: »

I'm liking the sound of gooseberries in cider apple jelly Can you give us a clue where to find that recipe please?

Err..in my head!

I was attempting the raised gooseberry pie recipe from this book. The recipe said to use apple jelly, but I didn't have any and nor could I find any at short notice. What I did have was cider apple jelly, so I used it (it was BBE July 2012 so probably about time :rotfl: ).

mrbadexample

Don't use cider apple jelly. Really. Don't.

A. It doesn't taste nice.
B. It doesn't set firm enough to hold the filling together.



As an exercise in pie-making I think this was mostly successful. As an actual dessert it's not nice, because of the jelly.

I think the little rhubarb one will be better. I also think that I should be able to make a half-decent pork pie.

rosieben

Thanks for that, mbe, will look for other options for the gooseberries then. Well done on the pastry, hope you enjoy the rhubarb pie

themull1

rosieben wrote: »

Thanks for that, mbe, will look for other options for the gooseberries then. Well done on the pastry, hope you enjoy the rhubarb pie

I think Delia Smith years ago did a gooseberry cobbler that looked really nice.

themull1

Yes she did - ive just googled it!!