odzer's blog

Open up your pie holes for tis is the day of the pie. Priyank tagged me to bake a pie on March the 14th for some reason or the other. He has some weird mathematical reasoning behind it but any excuse to bake or eat a pie is most welcome. I had settled on baking a cherry pie for this day but unfortunately I could not find cherries anywhere because it is still not the season for this fruit. So I decided in the end that it had to be definitely a custard pie for this occasion.

Custard pies, not be confused with custard cream pies (which are normally thrown at celebrities and politicians) are an old fashioned dessert and really do not require a lot of ingredients. Most of the flavouring in these pies comes from the ample use of Nutmeg a spice that is normally not used in very copious amounts in any other dish as far as my recollection goes. As there is no such thing as “frozen pastry dough” available in Chandigarh you would appreciate the effort that I put in creating pastry dough in 25ºC weather. If it was the peak of summer here I would be running between the freezer and the kitchen a couple of times to make sure the butter does not melt in the dough. Anyway the results are for all of you to view. I am certainly enjoying my pie day and I hope so do all of you!