Tuesdays with Dorie BWJ: Crunchy Summer Fruit Galette

August 9, 2012 at 5:07 pm | Posted in BWJ, groups, pies & tarts, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 11 Comments
Tags: baking, fruit, pie

This week it’s Thursday with Dorie. Oops, someone didn’t pay attention…my bad. Anyway, here is Flo Braker’s Crunchy Berry Galette, made instead with peaches and red currants from my CSA. A galette is a freeform pie. I make little individual ones everyday at the shop where I work, but we call them crostatas, cuz we’re Italian like that.

This galette has an unusal dough…it’s not a flaky pie pastry. It gets it’s crunch from cornmeal and softness from sour cream. The dough is seriously sticky, but I rolled and formed it directly on the parchment I used for baking, so I didn’t really have issues with it. I added a tiny spoon of cornstarch to the filling just to tighten it up a bit. I still had a little leaky juice, but no major explosion. This was small, perfect for two with ice cream.

For the recipe, see Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan or read Lisa’s Tomato Thymes in the Kitchen and Garden and Andrea’s The Kitchen Lioness. It’s also here. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll!

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Thursdays with Dorie has a nice ring 🙂
Lovely tart.

Comment by Cher— August 9, 2012 #

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- Oh man – I meant galette. I must have tart on the brain.
  
  Comment by Cher— August 9, 2012 #
  
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Your Galette looks gorgeous! I agree this was just perfect with ice cream.

Comment by NickkiT— August 10, 2012 #

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Delicious and so pretty!

Comment by yummychunklet— August 10, 2012 #

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Very pretty and delicious looking galette!!

Comment by bakeawaywithme.com— August 11, 2012 #

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I like the peach and currents combo. Did you peel the peaches? It looks delish:)

Comment by Sharon— August 14, 2012 #

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- Nope, just washed them.
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— August 14, 2012 #
  
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Gorgeous. I want one bite of everything you make that isn’t chocolate. Mark will have the chocolate bites. This is really pretty and love the combination.

Comment by Kayte— August 14, 2012 #

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This is so beautiful! I love the vibrant colors. Happy Birthday to Julia! 🙂

Comment by Sues— August 15, 2012 #

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This looks so yummy

Comment by savynaturalista— August 15, 2012 #

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That is a great looking pie.. Ice cream and these galettes are such a good combination..

Comment by Ferda— August 16, 2012 #

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