Easter Pie

April 21 2019

Ok, day three of our Easter Weekend Baking Egg-Stravaganza!

See what I did there?

Yeah, I am married to the king of puns, the ultimate Dad Jokester, it rubs off on you!

Martha has a recipe for Easter Pie – it is the first savoury recipe from the book I am going to attempt.

I started with the Easter Pie dough yesterday, as it needed to chill. It is similar to Pate Brisee, but uses half shortening, half butter and adds parmesan cheese, salt and pepper in the flour.

So, my food processor is a 7 cup, I think, and this recipe is more than that. I found out after I started mixing.

I have made other pie dough in my stand mixer, so I just transferred it over and finished in that.

It came together really well and smelled fantastic.

Today, I am working on the filling. I sautéed the spinach.

So in we all know that spinach gets smaller when cooked, but this is three bags that should turn magically turn into four cups.

I am skeptical.

So it is not quite four cups, but there is a lot of filing

I recruited hubby for this as there were many things happening and little time to do it

Not the greatest idea to attempt a third bake in three days, on a day when we have to be at my parents for dinner.

The prosciutto was hard to cut but was able to finesse my way through it.

This reminds me of stuffed shell filling with the mozzarella and ricotta cheese and an egg all mixed together. I filled the crust and had some left over

I started rolling for the lattice top – again the Tupperware grid mat to the rescue – and hubby’s keen eye for straight lines!

I am not sure how this will pan out as I have never done a lattice top before. I had to google how to do it as Martha does not provide instructions. I guess she expects you already know how to do a lattice top

Not bad lattice work, eh?

Now, back when I did the Classic Apple Pie, I had some trouble with the time in the oven.

This was also the case with this recipe.

So I added five minutes after the first timer as it was not close to being as dark as in the photo in the book.

An then I added another five. And another.

In all, I added 25 minutes to the time and I went my how dark the top was, I was bringing this to my parents’ house for Easter and I wanted it to be done.

This smelled amazing as it came out of the oven. And it looked pretty good too!