Farmhouse-style warm fruit pie

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10 servings Prep: 40 mins, Cooking: 1 hr
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By Food24 November 03 2009
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Ingredients (10)

2.00 shortcrust pastry — ready-made
425.00 g cherries — pitted
125.00 g butter — soft
160.00 ml castor sugar
2.00 eggs — large, slighly beaten
100.00 g almonds — crushed
45.00 ml flour — cake
1.00 ml almond essence
30.00 ml sugar
15.00 ml icing sugar — to dust
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Method:

Oven temperature: 200°C.
1. Roll out the pastry and line a 24cm
pie dish.
Chill it in the fridge while you prepare the filling.

2. Drain the cherries well, blotting any
excess moisture with paper towels.

3. Beat the butter and castor sugar until
pale and fluffy.
Beat in the eggs.
Add the almonds, flour and almond essence, and mix in well.

4. Spread the almond mixture into
the unbaked pastry shell.
Arrange the
cherries on top and sprinkle with sugar.
Bake for 15 minutes in a preheated oven, then reduce the oven temperature to 160°C and bake for about another 45 minutes, or until set.
Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the pie dish.

5. Reheat just before serving and dust
generously with icing sugar.



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