Damson Pie

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 Ingredients

  • 225g fresh damsons, washed
  • 55g caster sugar
  • 360ml double cream
  • 75ml milk
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 6 egg yolks
  • 1 x 20cm shortcrust pastry case, baked blind

  Method

  1. Stew the fruit with the sugar and 50ml cold water until soft but not breaking apart. Drain in a sieve.
  2. Warm the cream, milk and honey in a saucepan over a medium heat. Just before boiling, pour onto the egg yolks and whisk together until smooth.
  3. Scatter the stewed fruit into the pastry case, place on a baking tray and slowly pour over the custard mixture. Bake in the oven (180^C) for about 30 minutes until set.
  4. Not so much a pie as a tart so I put a lid on it. Delicious