- prep: 10 min
- cook: 30 min
- total: 40 min
Summary
Free-form pastries like this may not look quite as nice as an egg-washed lattice topped pie, but they involve far less effort, require no pie plate, and taste better. The first two benefits are pretty obvious, but the third is a little less intuitive, so let me explain. While a traditional pie is constrained to the volume of the plate you’re using, a free-form pie is limited only by how high you can stack the fruit. Personally, I like to create a small mountain of fruit in the middle of the dough, leaving just enough crust around the edges to tuck some back over the edges. The second thing is that there’s a trick to improving the texture of the bottom crust, while simultaneously making the crust easier to roll out and bake.
Ingredients
- 126 gramsall-purpose flour (~1 cup)
- 2 tablespoonsgranulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoonsalt
- 113 gramscultured unsalted butter (8 tablespoons cut into 1/4" cubes)
- 3 tablespoonsice water
- 400 gramswhite peach (~2 large peaches)
- 200 gramsrhubarb (chopped)
- 3 tablespoonsgranulated sugar
- 1 teaspoonpotato starch (tapioca starch works as well)
- 1 vanilla bean
Instructions
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Nutrition

- Servings Per Recipe: 6
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 406 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 23 g 34.89%
- Saturated Fat: 7 g 33.36%
- Trans Fat: 0 g %
- Cholesterol: 27 mg 8.89%
- Sodium: 807 mg 33.62%
- Calcium: 157 mg 15.71%
- Potassium: 67 mg 1.91%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 1 mg 3.83%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 41 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 8 g 31.01%
- Sugar: 17 g
- Protein: 17 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Vitamin A 14.52%
- Vitamin C 17.52%
- Vitamin D 0%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
- Exchange - Fat4
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs0
- Exchange - Starch0
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat2
- Exchange - Alcohol0
- MyPlate - Grain Total0 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total4 oz-eq