Uncle Bilbo's pies

Category: Bakery products

Ingredients
Flour	250 g
Butter	75 g
Milk	100 ml
baking powder	2 tsp
Salt, nutmeg	by a pinch
Boiled veal	350 g
Boiled pork heart	300 g
Red onion	1 PC.
Pickled cucumbers	1-2 pcs.
Apple	1 PC.
Cream cheese	100 g
Salt, pepper, nutmeg	taste
Vegetable oil \|\|\|\|\|\|\|	1 tbsp. l.
\|\|\|\|\|\|\| Eggs	190 g
Sugar	150 g
Milk	50 g
Butter	35 g
Molasses or honey	1 tsp
Flour	120 g
Yolk	1 PC.
Sugar	60 g
Flour	120 g
Butter	75 g
Vanilla	1 sachet
Apples	600-700 g
Apple juice	200 ml
Corn starch	45 g
Water	75 g
Zest and juice of half a lime
Sugar	50 g
Apricot jam	50 g

Cooking method

Meat pie
1. Cut onion and boiled heart into cubes and lightly fry in vegetable oil. Grate the apple on a coarse grater, cut the cucumbers as small as possible. Grind the boiled meat with a blender and combine all the ingredients for the filling. Season with salt, pepper and season with nutmeg (preferably freshly grated).
2. Prepare the dough: mix flour with baking powder and grind with cold butter into crumbs.
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Add milk, salt and nutmeg, knead the dough.
3. Divide the dough into 2 unequal parts. Roll out most of the dough and place the filling on top of it.
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Roll out the second part of the dough, cover the filling on top, pinch the edges well. Grease with an egg and bake at 180 degrees until golden brown for 30-40 minutes).
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Apple pie
1. Prepare a sponge cake (190 g eggs + 150 g sugar + 50 ml milk + 35 g butter + 120 g flour + honey or molasses). See the technology for making such a biscuit here.
2. Prepare shortbread dough from the yolk, sugar, flour and butter: beat the yolk with sugar, add softened butter, without stopping whipping, bring to a creamy state. Add flour. Gather the dough into a ball. Set aside about 1/5 of the dough. Distribute the rest over the bottom of the form without making a side. Put in a preheated oven for 5-7 minutes. Remove and brush with apricot jam.
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Cover with a biscuit cake.
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Place the apple filling on top.
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3. Filling.
Boil the apple juice. Add the juice and lime zest, 50 g of sugar (sugar can be increased or decreased depending on the desired acidity in the filling). Dilute cornstarch with 75 ml of water, pour into boiling apple juice, let it thicken. Stir this mass with apples cut into thin slices.
4. Sprinkle the top of the pie with crumbs from the remaining dough mixed with almonds. Place in oven on low heat for 1 hour.
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Note

- What a fun gathering! Hopefully latecomers will find something to eat and drink! ...
“And also raspberry jam and apple pie,” Bifur said.
“Also sweet cake and cheese,” said Bofur.
“Meat pie and salad,” Bombur said.
"And more pies and cookies ... and ale ... and coffee, if you don't mind," the gnomes said one after another.
- And please add some eggs! - shouted Gandalf after running away into the storeroom Bilbo. - And grab some cold chickens with tomatoes!

JRR Tolkien "The Hobbit"

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The meat pie was deliberately not made from yeast dough, since the Professor brought the features of the English national culture to the world of Middle-earth, and the hobbits-lovers ate the traditional English meat pie.
And since the time of Queen Victoria, biscuit baked goods have become as much an integral part of English culture as, for example, five-hour tea, so for dessert the hobbits are happy to eat just such an apple pie.

Cook with love and bon appetit