So I found a recipe which used feuilletine and thought: today is the day I finally attempt this, since I refuse to spend five quid on a box of it. Homemade feuilletine! This is @bravetart’s recipe. LOV THE CRONCH #baking A post shared by Pear (@pearpiesyrup) on Jul 31, 2017 at 12:25pm PDT //platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js Stella … Continue reading
Not much to say, except these are rather good. Standard choux pastries topped with a rich, barely sweet cocoa cookie crust and stuffed with banana-infused pastry cream. You might be thinking: why bother infusing it? Surely it’s nicer and simpler to just have fresh sliced banana. I am not denying you that option, rather, I’m suggesting this … Continue reading
This is the result of wanting a warm, buttery autumn pastry. I had a truly divine sorbet a couple of weeks ago, Chin Chin Lab’s apple turnover, smooth and intense tangy-sweet fruit with spiced syrup soaking crisp pastry. It was more fragrant and lovely than most fruit pies I’ve had, and it made me want to go … Continue reading
We celebrated our 4 year anniversary this week. He got me this lovely handmade mug by Lesley McShea (via We Make London). I made him this pie, which has a buttery, flaky double crust holding fresh pineapple pieces bound in a light sweet lime-scented custard. Yes. I encourage you to make this pie if you like any of … Continue reading
A smaller, easier, quicker version of that famed orange tart. A little flaky, buttery pastry, 2 oranges, 2 spoonfuls of sugar, and you’ll have a stunning dessert. Let me tediously list some of the boring reasons I made them this way: My freezer is a shoebox which can’t always accommodate a whole tart, like the original recipe requires; … Continue reading
Well, it’s Halloween this month. Even if the current weather varies between muggy and miserable stark pallor rather than bright colours and crisp air, I’m determined to give myself fully to autumn. I drink hot chocolate in the evenings. I’ve knitted quite a few things for my friends and myself. The other day I ate a whole … Continue reading
The original banoffee pie is perfect as it is, but for this year’s Easter lunch I wanted to make something that was familiar and very welcome but also a bit different. I’m hesitant to call this a straight-up chocolate banoffee pie because the chocolate doesn’t actually dominate in the way that such a name would suggest. The aim was for the chocolate … Continue reading
I call this a pork pot pie because a British pork pie is something different. This is actually an elaborate version of a pork, apple, and (hard) cider pie we made to see my friend Mary off last spring, tinkety tonk, old fruit. (Not gonna lie, I am kind of secretly hoping this pie and … Continue reading
This is an approximation of French onion tart in bite-size form: light crisp pastry and tender savoury middles. The recipe has its origins in an issue of Stella magazine when I was learning to bake during sixthform (don’t let’s think about how long ago that was; my age is showing), and my Pearents seem to … Continue reading
Miss South posted this recipe recently and I tried it a couple of days ago, transforming the shame I felt towards the leftover mincemeat lurking in the fridge into vaingloriousness for being so thrifty. Perhaps you, too, still have leftovers, or want to save this for later this year. Flies graveyard is a good place … Continue reading
The Furious Pear Pie 
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