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How to Make Cherry Pie — The Victorian Way



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Mrs Crocombe has been busy making an ornamental cherry pie, ideal for a late summer dinner. This dish is created using a brown bread biscuit paste and wholewheat flour instead of regular (as the nutty taste really compliments the cherries). She plans on serving this dish between the second course and desert, as a sweet entremet.

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INGREDIENTS
450g shortcrust pastry
4 eggs
100g wholewheat flour
450g cherries
100g butter
1tsp cinnamon
100g sugar

METHOD
1. Line the tin with brown paper and flour and construct the pie base and sides from shortcrust pastry. Put in the oven until almost cooked through.
2. Cream together butter and sugar, then add egg yolks and wholewheat flour
3. Whisk the eggs until they form peaks, add cinnamon and slowly mix everything together
4. Layer biscuit paste and de-stoned cherries into the shortcrust pastry pie base, ensuring that the top layer is cherries
5. Place in a moderate oven for between an hour and an hour and a half
6. Just before the pie has finished baking, create a lid from the remaining biscuit paste and sprinkle full of sugar to form a crust
7. Let the pie cool. Decorate with cherries and serve with jug of custard

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:37 For this recipe, you will need…
01:11 Shortcrust pastry
01:33 Biscuit paste
04:22 Assembling the pie
06:27 Final decorations
07:32 Finished cherry pie

44 Comments

  5. Din din's

    What temperature is a moderate oven? I’ve done cherries I have been meaning to use up

  8. Jerald Baxter

    I love the details that go into the script writing; " I think the Marello cherries are more superior…", how that "more superior" is such an indicator of one's place in the social strata. It is this attention to details, as well as Kathy Hipperson's talents that have made me a fan.

  12. Caleb Woods

    This looks tasty. I gotta try one of these recipes sometime, just gotta figure where to get some pigeon feet 🤔

  13. Ana Avanti

    I would love to see and episode with Lord and Lady Baybrook eating this wonderful food. An Audley End House series would be AMAZING!!! I adore this channel!! ❤❤❤

  21. Christine Lawrence

    I love this series. I think it would be cool to see her serve a plate of food for a "guest" so we could get an idea of historical serving sizes. 😊

  23. A _

    Who is Silvia? And which book suggested that whole wheat flour is healthier for you?

  26. thegreenmanofnorwich

    I do love the actress who plays Mrs Crocombe – she always manages to come across like a primary school teacher that you really like, but wouldn't dream of crossing.

  28. Kathy Johnson

    If this was before desert, what was dessert? Or, was it fruit and cheese or would that have come after desert? And was it all finished with coffee in the lounge for the ladies and brandy eith cigars in the smoking room for the men?

  30. Cynthia Tolman

    I certainly don't have a YouTube channel with thousands of likes on every video, but I do pay attention and learn a lot. If you add a third of your whites into the batter first, it loosens it up, so when you fold in the remaining whites it's easier and helps hold in more air.

  31. Joel Thomson

    I'm a 36 year old single man and this is what I'm doing with my Friday night. Wouldn't have it any other way.

  34. Brittany Perry

    OMG! Seeing the finished product FINALLY cleared up a mystery to me from years ago!! Living in Finland as an American, I was always shocked that their blueberry "pie" was actually like a blueberry pound cake! Now I know that this version predates the American version by quite some bit and original pies actually seem to be very cake like indeed! hahaha

  35. Knightingale

    "She's my cherry pie!
    Cool drink of water, such a sweet surprise
    Tastes so good, makes a grown man cry
    Sweet Cherry Pie, yeah…"

  40. Sedatedbylife

    What I find interesting is how back then, something so simply made and decorated was for the upper class / royalty and nowadays, even the pauper would look down on it because it doesn't have all the elaborate decorations and icings or creme atop and drizzled. How life has changed… We're spoiled rotten

  41. Natalie Muller

    Almond meal would be much nicer with cherries and would give it a mazipan flavour, but that is probably my German palate coming to the fore.

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