recipes from the escobosa kitchen

Gooseberry Pie

A simple but scrumptious Scandinavian dessert.

source Sanna Liedgren
Ingredients
for about 88 people
  • 0 Pie Dough
  • 1.251  cups flour
  • 22  tablespoons sugar
  • 0.33 pound butter, cold
  • 1.51  tablespoons water, cold
  • 0 Filling
  • 44  cups gooseberries, washed & trimmed
  • 0.5 cup sugar
  • 2.52  tablespoons starch, potato or corn
  • 0 Topping
  • 11  vanilla pod
  • 11  tablespoon sugar, fine
  • 11  tablespoon lemon zest
  • 11  cup crème fraiche
Preparation
  1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
  2. Dice the cold butter and mix with flour, sugar and water. Knead until fairly smooth and refrigerate for one hour.
  3. Distribute dough into 4 pie tins. Bake at 400°F for 10 minutes.
  4. While the dough is par-baking, wash and trim the berries then mix with the starch and sugar.
  5. Remove the pie crusts from the oven. Distribute the filling among the 4 crusts.Bake at 400°F for 25 minutes.
  6. While pies are baking, mix topping ingredients together.
  7. Remove pies from oven. Let cool. Add a dollop of topping and serve.