Gooseberry Pie

gooseberry pie

Ingredients

  • 600 g fresh gooseberries
  • 200 g sugar
  • 30 g plain flour
  • 1 tbsp. margarine
  • 1 pack Pastry. for double-crust pie
  • ¼ tsp salt

Method

  1. Stem and wash the gooseberries.
  2. Combine the sugar, flour, and salt.
  3. Add the sugar mixture to the berries and cover all the fruit
  4. Grease a baking sheet and a 20cm flan ring.
  5. Line the base and flan ring with short crust pastry.
  6. Bake blind, prick the base, and use greaseproof paper and rice and bake for 15 minutes on 190C
  7. Fill a pastry with the gooseberry mixture and stick with the margarine
  8. Adjust top crust. Seal and flute edge. Cover edge of pie with foil.
  9. Bake in the oven at 190 C for 20 minutes.
  10. Remove the foil, then bake for another 25 minutes or until golden.