"Grandma's" pie: recipe

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Practically everyone who lived with their grandmother or went to visit her as a child will surely agree that the taste of grandmother's pies is remembered for a lifetime. Perhaps this is because everything related to childhood seems better, sweeter and more attractive to a person, or perhaps the reason is the culinary experience of the older generation, which comes with age. Be that as it may, today there are even several types of pastries, which are directly called “Grandma's Pie”. They are prepared with various fillings and can be a great treat for tea or coffee.

Pie "Grandma's napkin" with poppy seeds

A real culinary masterpiece can be prepared using the following recipe. It is called "Grandma's Napkin" and is made with poppy seed filling.

For cooking you will need:

• a tablespoon of good butter(melted);
• 1 tbsp l. yeast (30 g fresh or dry);
• vanilla sugar;
• 2 eggs (1 egg yolk for brushing);
• 1 glass of boiled water or warm milk;
• ½ cup each poppy seed and sugar;
• 0.5 kg flour;
• s alt.

How to make a traditional "Grandma's" Poppy Seed Pie

To make delicious and beautiful pastries you need:

• pour yeast into a bowl with slightly warmed milk and stir;
• add ½ tbsp. l. sugar and vegetable oil;
• pour a little boiling water into a larger bowl and put a bowl in it for 20 minutes;
• Rinse the poppy seeds, add 1/2 cup of water and boil until the liquid has completely evaporated;
• sift flour, mix with dissolved yeast, pour butter into the dough;
• knead the dough vigorously with your hands for at least 10 minutes, put it in a deep saucepan, put it in a heated and turned off oven, near a radiator, etc., and let it rise;

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  the finished dough must be divided into 2 parts, since 2 pies are obtained from this amount;

• roll out the first part of the dough with a layer of 1.5 cm;
• put the poppy seed filling on the layer, sprinkle with half of the sugar mixed with the contents of the “vanilla” bag;

• roll the dough carefully into a roll;
• cut off both ends of one piece 1 cm thick.
• oil the mold and sprinkleflour or breadcrumbs;



• put the roll into the form, rolling into a ring;
• with a sharp knife on the outside, make deep cuts at a distance of 1.5 cm;
• leave two pieces in place, and turn the third piece back to the center of the circle;
• repeat the same sequence of actions until the entire roll is cut and turns into a "flower";



• put one of the previously cut pieces of roll into the “hole” in the center of the ring and cover it with the second one on top;
• put the cake in a warm place for 40 minutes;
• beat the yolk and smear the surface of the cake with a pastry brush;
• put in the oven heated to 170 degrees;
• after 20 minutes turn off the oven, wait a quarter of an hour and take out the finished cake.

Dry toppings

The Grandma's napkin pie recipe has several varieties, with different fillings. For example, instead of poppy seeds, you can take nut, which is prepared like this:

• 2 tbsp. l. sugar mixed with 4 tbsp. l. finely chopped walnut kernels;
• add some vanilla sugar, cardamom or cinnamon powder;
• pour 2 tsp. cognac;
• everyone mixes.

Delicious "grandmother's" pie will turn out with coconut filling. To prepare it, you need to take 2 tbsp. l. coconut flakes and sugar and mix. You can also just sprinkle them on a sheet of dough.

Babushkinpie: recipe with apples

For such fragrant and easy baking you will need:

• 150 g butter (must be melted first);
• egg;
• one and a half glasses of granulated sugar;
• 3 apples (preferably sweet and sour varieties);
• 4 tbsp. wheat, sifted flour;
• half a packet of baking powder;
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder.

Cooking:

• butter mixed with sugar (1 tablespoon) and baking powder;
• add flour;
• knead rather tight dough;
• the dough is divided into two parts and wrapped in cling film;
• most put in a cold place, and a smaller part in the freezer of the refrigerator;
• apples, peeled and pitted, cut into cubes and then mixed with cinnamon and 0.5 cup sugar;
• a round shallow form is greased with butter and sprinkled with flour;
• most of the dough is laid out in a mold and spread along the bottom with your fingers;
• spread the apple filling over the surface of the dough;
• take out the remaining dough from the freezer and quickly rub it through a coarse grater on the apples;
• heat the oven to 180 degrees;
• send "Grandma's Apple Pie" to the oven for 15 minutes;
• serve hot.

Pie according to an old recipe with jam

Few people know that in some provinces of Russia 100 years ago there was a custom to invite a godfather to a son or daughter, sending a sweet as a giftpastries. Most often it was a “grandmother's pie with jam”, which was prepared from the following ingredients:

• 3 eggs;
• 200 g sugar;
• 1 tsp soda;
• 250g butter;
• vinegar (1/2 tbsp);
• yolk;
• 200 g of jam (better with sourness, for example, cherry, but pitted);
• 3 st. wheat flour.

Preparing a traditional jam pie

“Grandma’s Jam Pie” begins by rubbing eggs with sugar until fluffy. Then you need:

• melt butter;
• add vanilla, cinnamon, lemon juice and oil to the egg-sugar mixture;
• mix, pour soda slaked with vinegar and, adding flour, knead the dough (not too steep);
• divide it into 2 parts (unequal);
• put most of it on a mold or baking sheet and distribute, leaving sides that will not allow the jam to flow out;
• brush the base of the pie with jam;
• Roll out the 2nd part of the dough, cut into thin strips (2 cm) with a special curly knife;
• put the strips on the dough in the form of a “lattice”;
• brush decorations with yolk;
• bake at 200 degrees for about half an hour.

Grandma's cottage cheese pie recipe

Delicious pastries will turn out if you take:

• 1/2 kg full-fat cottage cheese;
• s alt (to taste, you can leave it out);
• 4 eggs;
• 2 tbsp. flour;
• 160g confectionery margarine;
• quarter tsp soda;
• 1 tbspsugar.

Cooking order:

• freeze butter;
• sift flour;
• frozen butter quickly grate;
• mix with butter, half sugar, s alt and soda;
• grind until the dough turns into crumbs;
• eggs and the remaining sugar thoroughly grind with cottage cheese (for filling);
• sprinkle the mold with a little oil;
• separate a third from the dough;
• pour the rest into the mold;
• distribute the filling on top, and then pour a third of the dough;
• heat oven to high heat and bake granny pie (recipe can be modified with chopped hazelnuts or walnuts) for half an hour.

In general, cottage cheese goes well with raisins and candied fruits, so, as an option, we can recommend adding these ingredients to this pie. This will only make it tastier and spicier.

Old Grandmother's Recipe

In one of the well-known culinary books in Russian that has survived to this day, which is over 150 years old, a recipe for a sweet raspberry pie has been preserved. It can rightfully be called "great-grandmother's", as it has been prepared in Russia since at least the 18th century.

He needs:

• 6g dry yeast dissolved in 1.5 tbsp. warm water;
• pour 2 tbsp. coarse flour, mix and wait about 4 hours;
• pour a pinch of s alt into the dough and beat thoroughly with a wooden spatula for 10 minutes;
• ½ cup sugar rub with 2 tbsp. l. oil (sunflower, if the pies are lenten, inotherwise melted butter will do);
• add vanilla sugar;
• sprinkle in enough flour to make a not-so-cool dough;
• separate part of the dough for the “lattice”;
• put the remaining dough into the form and let rise;
• put fresh raspberries, strawberries or cherries (pitted) on top, sprinkle with sugar;
• roll out the rest of the dough into a thin layer, cut out strips and arrange a lattice on the surface of the pie;
• put the cake in a preheated oven for half an hour, after brushing it with a saturated solution of honey (dissolve honey in boiled and slightly cooled water).

Grandma's recipes (pictured pies) above are traditional pastries that were invented centuries ago and will surely delight generations to come.