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Guillotined Mixed Berry Galette Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Divaliscious / All my dishes 1 year, 10 months ago This I created for anyone who loves berry pie, but may not feel too comfortable with making pie pastry. You can substitute other fruit here too! Made today, I included along with the 1-1/2 cups of frozen mixed berries, one granny smith apple, and a B... More Prep:10m Cook:30m Servings:8	Divalisciou
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Ingredients

Fillings:

3 cups frozen unsweetened mixed berries

1 large granny smith apple

1 pear (Bartlett just fine)

2-3 tablespoons flour

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

zest and juice of one large lemon

Pie Pastry:

2 cups flour

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

2/3 cups Crisco shortening (or butter – not margarine)

4-6 tablespoons very cold water

****Equipment needed:

Glass pie pan, bowl, spoon, one working oven at 375 degrees, food processor

Directions

In processor add salt, sugar and flour, pulse a few times till well mixed.

Add Crisco, and blend till shortening has broken down into little bits (smaller than pea size)

Add 3 tablespoons of water and pulse till combined.

Take a look at your mixture, add one more tablespoon first, pulse a few times again, and stop.

Check with fingers (careful of the blade inside) and pick up a little of the pastry dough, can you squeeze it together and it sticks and acts like dough? Then you are ready – if not, add one tablespoon more of water and pulse a few times more.

Grab glass pie pan and turn out pastry dough onto pie pan.

Grab kids for this part, they will like playing with the dough, it will remind them of their play dough experiences (or you for that matter)

You are going to flatten out with your fingers and palms the pastry dough right in the pie pan, first in the center, then pushing is out towards the sides, and finally up the sides, like when you are making a graham cracker crust or pressing out shortbread.

Pat out pastry dough as thin as you can make it. If you make a hole, no worry, just fix it by patching it up with some of the dough, no one is going to see the bottom of this except the bottom of the plate when they are finished with it and asking for seconds!

Allow for extra dough to be pushed up and over sides of pie pan.

Place pie pan with pastry dough in it, in the freezer till ready to bake.

Turn on oven at 375 degrees to preheat

In bowl, add frozen berries (fresh fine too), and skinned, cut up pear and granny smith apple cut up into bite size pieces and add them to bowl with mixed fruit.

Add sugar, lemon juice, zest, and extracts to fruit.

With wooden spoon, gently mix fruit till well combined.

Add flour and gently stir once again till well incorporated.

Take pie pan with pastry dough outside of your freezer.

Pour fruit mixture into pie pan and pull up any other the extra pie pastry dough over the fruit as best you can.

Place in oven and bake for 30 minutes.

Let cool once out of oven for 30 minutes, prior to serving.

Serve with whipped cream, or your favorite good ice cream.

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divaliscious 1 year, 10 months ago said:
I named it Guillotined Mixed Berry Galette, since I frankly have yet to make a pie pastry like my mom - despite me standing right by her side so many times...I tend to guillotine my efforts almost every time, and that's with knowing every one of her pie pastry tricks! This though allows me to save face and still make a nice pie...So this is a nice cheat pie, if you get my drift...

One word on fruit and the amount of flour. If using more apples say then berries, use 1 tablespoon less of flour. The flour is used to "soak" up the extra juices that come from the berries such as blackberries and razzberries.