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Shortcrust Pastry

Posted in butter, pastry, pie, vegetable shortening, wheat flour on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I posted grandma’s Crisco shortcrust pastry recipe earlier. This one uses another vegetable shortening, Spry, which was Crisco’s main competitor. Read more of my earlier comments on these vegetable shortenings also here.
The recipe’s list of ingredients states ‘butter’ next to ‘Spry’, though the ingredients refer only to Spry. As I noted in the Crisco pastry [...]

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Cream Puffs (Choux Pastry)

Posted in butter, egg, pastry, wheat flour on November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I have been waiting to get to this recipe :). Cream puffs were one of grandmother’s favourite things to make as she found choux pastry very easy to produce. I don’t recall her ever making them for me, but she often recalled how as a teenager in the early 1930s, she learnt to make them [...]

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Date Nut Parfait Pie

Posted in cinnamon, cream, dates, ice cream, jelly, milk, nuts, pastry, pie, sweet, vegetable shortening, wheat flour on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This is one of the only pie recipes here with instructions for making the pie shell. It’s basically a shortcrust pastry using vegetable shortening (such as Crisco, see my comments here.)
Giveaway sign of an American recipe: the word ‘Jell-O’. In Singapore, we’ve always followed the British usage – ‘jelly’.
Also, the inclusion of vanilla ice cream. [...]

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Crisco Pastry

Posted in pastry, vegetable shortening, wheat flour on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

As I’ve posted so many pie recipes already, it’s about time I put up grandma’s pastry recipe so that you can make the pie shells!
My childhood is filled with memories of homemade shortcrust pastry. We had regular servings of apple pie made by Ah Kum Che but actually, I loved the plain shortcrust pastry [...]

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Pineapple Pie Filling

Posted in gelatine, lemon juice, milk, pastry, pie, pineapple, sugar, sweet on September 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Finally, this is the last in the series of pie recipes, all of which sound very American in origin! I’ve written here about the possible source of this influence on my grandmother.
You might want to compare this with the Pineapple Pie/Tart recipe I posted earlier. Read more about the history of the pineapple and its [...]

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Cranberry Orange Pie

Posted in apple, butter, cranberry, orange juice, orange rind, pastry, sago pearls, sugar on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This one is interesting because of the use of ‘quick cooking tapioca’. I had always thought this was a western name for what is more commonly know in Singapore/Malaysia as ’sago’ (here, ‘tapioca’ immediately brings to mind the entire root vegetable, not processed pearls). However a quick search on the internet reveals that sago and [...]

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Pear Almond Pie

Posted in almond, cinnamon, cream, egg, pastry, pear, pie, sugar, sweet on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Yet another one in the series of pie recipes.
[22/9/07 update: Grandmother's recipe for shortcrust pastry for the pie crust here.]
[19/12/07 update: another shortcrust pastry recipe from grandma here.]

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Peach Banana Pie

Posted in banana, egg, pastry, peach, pie, sugar, sweet on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Another one in the series of pie recipes. Most of them seem to involve a combination of delicious-sounding fruits; somehow the double-barrelled, hyphenated names are very alluring :)!
[22/9/07 update: Grandmother's recipe for shortcrust pastry for the pie crust here.]
[19/12/07 update: another shortcrust pastry recipe from grandma here.]

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