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Grandmother's Pine Nut Pie

Grandmother’s Pine Nut Pie : Torta della Nonna con Pignoli recipe.

Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Keyword Grandmother's Pine Nut Pie
Servings 12 slices

Ingredients

  • Ingredients for the crust:
  • 8 Tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 4 Tbsp sour cream
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 4 Tbsp sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • Pinch of salt
  • Custard ingredients:
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 cup whipping cream
  • 7 Tbsp all-purpose flour
  • 6 Tbsp sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2 Tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup pine nuts, roughly ground ( 13 Tbsp )
  • 2 tsp lemon zest
  • 2 tsp lemon juice
  • 1 egg white for egg wash
  • 2 Tbsp whole pine nuts to garnish before baking
  • Powdered sugar to dust before serving

Instructions

  1. On clean working surface, combine, using your hands, all the crust ingredients. Leave in the fridge for two hours, at least.

  2. In medium sized pot, on low heat, slowly bring to boil milk and whipping cream.

  3. While the liquids are on the stove top, combine flour, sugar, salt, eggs, egg yolk and butter in a bowl to get smooth texture.

  4. Add the mixture from the bowl to the liquids and slowly boil, mixing with spatula constantly until thick ( 5 minutes ).

  5. Take away from the heat and add lemon zest, lemon juice and pine nuts. Combine.

  6. Preheat the oven to 180 C / 356 F.

  7. Grease rounded pan ( 10 inches in diameter ).

  8. Half the crust and roll it out to fit the bottom and the sides of the pan.

  9. Bake the crust alone for 10 minutes.

  10. Take the dish out and pour the custard in the half baked crust.

  11. Roll out the second half of the crust and cover the filling. Seal the edges and cut away the extras, if any.

  12. Egg wash and sprinkle with whole pine nuts.

  13. Bake for 30 minutes.

  14. Take out and cool completely before serving. Sprinkle with icing sugar to taste.