Glace Fruit Pie Recipe

  
 

Pies And Tarts Recipes - Glace Fruit Pie

Ingredients

  • 15ml/1 tbsp rum

  • 50g/4 tbsp mixed glace fruit, chopped

  • 475ml/2 cups milk

  • 20ml/4 tsp gelatin

  • 90g/1/2 cup sugar

  • 2.5ml/1/2 tsp salt

  • 3 eggs, separated

  • 250ml/1 cup whipping cream, whipped

  • chocolate curls, to decorate

FOR THE CRUST

  • 175g/2 cups digestive biscuits, crushed

  • 75g/5 tbsp butter, melted

  • 15ml/1 tbsp sugar

Method:

  1. Mix the digestive biscuits, butter and sugar. Press evenly over the base and sides of a 23cm/9in pie plate. Chill.

  2. Stir together the mm and glace fruit. Set aside. Pour 120ml/4fl oz/ 1/2cup of the milk into a small bowl. Sprinkle over the gelatin and leave for 5 minutes to soften.

  3. In the top of a double boiler, combine 50g/2oz/4 tbsp of the sugar, the remaining milk and salt. Stir in the gelatin mixture. Cook, stirring, until the gelatin dissolves. Whisk in the egg yolks and cook, stirring, until thick enough to coat the spoon. Pour the custard over the glace fruit mixture, set in a bowl of iced water.

  4. Beat the egg whites until they peak softly. Add the remaining sugar and beat just to blend. Fold a large dollop of the egg whites into the cooled gelatin mixture. Pour into the remaining egg whites and fold together. Fold in the cream.

  5. Pour into the pie crust and chill until firm. Decorate with chocolate curls.