Peach, Strawberry & Blueberry Galette
Not the best week, and I wish those lazy days of summer I keep hearing about would hurry and show up. On the upside, I baked this pie:
A galette, if you want to get technical. A free-form pie with no need for the constraints of a plate. Like those lucky girls who can spend hot days in breezy tank dresses and no bra.
Peach, Strawberry & Blueberry Galette
1 batch pastry for a single crust pie (below)
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tbsp. flour
pinch cinnamon or apple pie spice (optional)
2-3 peaches, diced
1/2-1 cup wee strawberries
1/2 cup blueberriesRoll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface to a 10-inch circle. (Ish.) Transfer to a parchment-lined sheet. In a bowl, stir together the sugar, flour and cinnamon. Add the fruit and toss it about to coat. Dump in a pile in the middle of the pastry, and spread it out leaving an inch border around the edge.
Fold the edge of the pastry up around the fruit, folding it wherever it wants to. If you like, brush the edge of the pastry with cream or milk and sprinkle with coarse sugar. Bake at 400F for 30 minutes, or until bubbly and golden. Serves 8.
All-Butter Pastry
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup butter, chilled and cut into pieces
1/4-1/3 cup ice-cold waterIn a large bowl or the bowl of a food processor, stir together the flour, sugar and salt. Add the butter and use a fork, pastry blender, wire whisk or the “pulse” motion of the food processor to blend the mixture until it resembles coarse meal, with lumps of fat no bigger than a pea.
Drizzle the minimum amount of water over the mixture and stir until the dough comes together, adding a little more a bit at a time if you need it. Gather the dough into a ball, flatten it into a disc, wrap it in plastic and let it rest on the countertop or in the fridge for 20 minutes or so, or chill it for up to 2 days.
July 30 2012 08:13 pm | dessert
Jennifer Jo on 31 Jul 2012 at 5:11 am #
A perfect analogy. Yes.
Meta4 on 31 Jul 2012 at 9:17 am #
Those perfectly young skinny girls in flowing summer dresses and no bra can’t bake pies like you do.
Carolyn on 31 Jul 2012 at 9:30 am #
Perfect…
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Wendy on 31 Jul 2012 at 11:14 am #
So pretty! I don’t think I’ve ever made a Galette before and I’m not sure why. It certainly seems to be much less fussy that a pie!
Melanie on 31 Jul 2012 at 3:03 pm #
I wish I was one of those girls… I’ll have to settle for eating the pie
Might make me just as happy!
Sandy on 31 Jul 2012 at 3:04 pm #
Julie, I tried one of your galettes last week and the juice from the fruit ran out all over the parchment paper (thank goodness it was there!) and left the pie rather dry. Any ideas what I might have done wrong?
Barb on 31 Jul 2012 at 7:04 pm #
Summer fruits are there just waiting for us to create delicious looking things like this. I’m hoping a couple of lazy summer days may appear this weekend.
Jill on 01 Aug 2012 at 8:02 am #
I’ve come to believe that galettes may actually be even more delicious than pie…there is nothing about summer food that I look forward to more than a blueberry galette (using your recipe of course Julie!).
Nerissa on 02 Aug 2012 at 12:47 am #
The picture was perfect. I could imagine sitting in the cool of the summer evening slowly dabbing into the crust and a few juicy fruit bits as I listened to the insects chirping and sipped on an iced green-tea faintly redolent of white peach.
Anita on 04 Aug 2012 at 4:24 pm #
Made two of these yesterday. Didn’t have strawberries so used apricots instead. Yum yum! Absolutely divine and simple! Thanks!!
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We always want what we don’t have! Just think – the likes of us will never need to go for a boob job, like some of those “lucky” girls! The pie looks fab!!
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