Dougherty Family Recipe Box

Category: Pie

  • Maple Butter Tarts

    Ingredients

    • 12 large or 24 small unbaked tart shells – use pie crust recipe
    • 1/4 cup butter
    • 1/2 cup brown sugar
    • 1/4 cup maple syrup
    • 1/4 cup corn syrup
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 1/4 teaspoon salt
    • 1 egg lightly beaten

    Pecan Variation

    • 1/2 cup chopped pecans

    Method

    1. Preheat oven to 425°F.
    2. Prepare tart shells.
    3. Whisk together all other ingredients.
    4. Pour mixture into tart shells.
    5. (Pecan variation: sprinkle nuts on top of each tart).
    6. Bake until pastry is light brown and filling is bubbly (about 15-20 minutes).
    7. Cool on wire rack.

    Source

  • Kuchen

    Ingredients

    Crust

    • 2 1/4 teaspoons dry yeast
    • 1/4 cup warm water
    • 1 tablespoon white sugar
    • 1 cup milk
    • 1 cup vegetable shortening
    • 4 cups all purpose flour
    • 3 tablespoons white sugar
    • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
    • 3 egg yolks
    • 1 tablespoon lemon juice

    Custard

    • 5 eggs
    • 1 1/2 cups sugar
    • 1 1/2 cups 35% heavy cream
    • 2 tablespoons flour

    Filling

    • 4 cups fresh fruit (saskatoons work best) OR dry curd cottage cheese

    Method

    Crust

    1. Activate yeast in 1/4 cup water with 1 tablespoon sugar.
    2. Melt the shortening in the milk in a saucepan over medium low heat, then allow to cool.
    3. When milk is cooled, mix in the yeast mixture, egg yolks, and lemon juice.
    4. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, sugar, and salt, and make a well in the centre.
    5. Pour the milk mixture into the well in the flour.
    6. Knead until a soft, sticky dough forms.
    7. Cover and let rise until doubled.
    8. Punch down and form dough into 4 equal balls.
    9. Press or roll out each ball into a 9 inch metal pie plate.
    10. Pour 1 cup of filling (fruit or cottage cheese) into each crust.
    11. Let rise until dough is puffy around the edges – mix the custard and preheat the oven while this is happening.
    12. Preheat oven to 350°F.

    Custard

    1. Mix together all ingredients.
    2. Pour 1/4 of the raw custard into each kuchen (over top of the fruit or cottage cheese) after the dough has finished rising.

    Kuchen

    1. Bake for 45 minutes, until crust is brown, custard is starting to brown, and the kuchen slips inside the pan.

    Source

    Waldbauer family recipe.

  • Crumb Pie Topping

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup brown sugar
    • 3/4 cup all purpose flour
    • 3/4 cup oatmeal
    • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
    • 1/4 teaspoon salt
    • 1/2 cup butter

    Method

    1. In stand mixer using paddle attachment on low, combine everything except the butter.
    2. Add butter and mix until a coarse crumb mixture forms.
    3. Use instead of a top crust on a fruit pie, bake according to directions for filling.

    Source

  • Lemon Meringue Pie

    Ingredients

    Lemon Curd

    • 1/4 cup cornstarch
    • 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
    • 1 cup white sugar
    • 1/4 teaspoon salt
    • 2 cups boiling water
    • 3 egg yolks
    • 2 tablespoons butter
    • 1 tablespoon lemon peel finely grated
    • 6 tablespoons lemon juice

    Meringue

    • 3 egg whites
    • 6 tablespoons icing sugar
    • 3/8 teaspoon cream of tartar

    Crust

    Method

    • Preheat oven to 425°F.

    Lemon Curd

    1. Mix cornstarch, flour, 1 cup sugar, and salt together in a small saucepan.
    2. Gradually stir in boiling water.
    3. Beat egg yolks and add to cornstarch mixture.
    4. Cook 5-7 minutes over medium-low heat stirring constantly.
    5. Cook 5 more minutes stirring occasionally.
    6. Remove from heat, add butter, peel, and juice.
    7. Cover and cool.
    8. Pour into pie shell.

    Meringue

    1. Beat egg whites to soft peaks using a metal whisk in a metal bowl.
    2. Add sugar and cream of tartar, beat to stiff peaks.
    3. Spread meringue over filling.

    Pie

    • Bake until meringue is browned.

    Source

    Barkley family recipe.

  • Saskatoon Pie Filling

    Ingredients

    • 4 cups saskatoon berries
    • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
    • 1/2 cup sugar
    • 2 1/2 tablespoons corn starch
    • pie crust

    Method

    1. Preheat oven to 425°F.
    2. Mix saskatoons with lemon juice.
    3. In a separate bowl, combine sugar and corn starch.
    4. Mix sugar with saskatoons.
    5. Prepare the bottom crust.
    6. Pour saskatoon mixture into crust.
    7. Add top crust.
    8. Bake for 15 minutes.
    9. Reduce oven temperature to 350°F.
    10. Bake for 45 to 55 minutes (finished pie should slip inside the pie plate).

    Source

    Barkley family recipe.