For those who have seen my posts before and perhaps even noticed that I haven't been around much, I'll tell you something. I downloaded Civ 6. Because of this, I've been much much less on any social media site.
Now I finished one game and decided it's time to do something else. Finally I'm free again, my soul has been released from it's prison. I can post again!
So today, we'll bake a Finnish style berry pie. The secret is in the quark. As most nations rarely have any quark available, I'd recommend trying to find sour cream for this. You might need a little bit more sugar, but the finished product should be quite similar.
What you'll need is:
100 grams of room temp. butter
2 deciliters of sugar
3 eggs
1,5 deciliters of wheat flour
1 deciliter of wholegrain wheat flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
400 grams of quark or sour cream
200 grams of raspberries, frozen or fresh
200 grams of bilberries, frozen or fresh
These are used in different phases, so don't mix everything together in th start.
Pie dough:
100 grams of room temp. butter
1 deciliter of (brown) sugar
1 egg
1,5 deciliters of wheat flour
1 deciliter of wholegrain wheat flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
Start by mixing the soft butter (room temperature) and the sugar in a bowl.
Just whip them away as well as you can. You can use an electric mixer or do mix it with hand.
Add the egg. Enjoy the beauty of the egg river.
Mix them together.
In another bowl, mix flour and baking powder together.
This is the best way to ensure the baking powder is evenly spread in the flour.
Mix everything together!
You should have a nice, crumbly pie dough.
Spread a small amount of butter on your.. pie pan. Pie tray? Pie bowl?? Not sure.
You should get a thin layer of butter, so the dough will not stick that badly.
Grab all your pie dough and add it in.
The dough is soft, so you can spread the dough on the pan/tray/bowl. Spread on the entire bottom and a bit on the sides.
The filling:
200 grams of raspberries and 200 grams of bilberries, but you can use other berries too.
400 grams of quark or sour cream
2 eggs
1 dl of sugar
Add all the berries.
ALL THE BERRIES!
You can either add the berries separately on the bottom OR mix it together with the quark filling.
Gaze and amaze.
Add quark/sour cream, eggs and sugar (and the berries if you want. Test both methods and see which you prefer)
Mix sugar, egg and the quarks in a bowl. This is quite simple to mix, so you can use a normal fork or a spoon.
Add the quark mix in the bowl on the dough/berries.
Bake in oven in 200 degrees Celsius for approx. 40 - 50 minutes.
The pie is ready. It's tasty and it's beautiful.
I seriously recommend that everyone should give this a try once or twice.
