BLUEBERRY AND BLACKBERRY PIE WITH CLOTTED CREAM
Ingredients
- 350g/12oz readymade shortcrust pastry
- 225g/8oz blueberries
- 225g/8oz blackberries
- ½ lemon
- juice and zest
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 25g/1oz demerara sugar
- 1 free-range egg
- lightly beaten
- 4 tbsp apricot jam
- 4 tbsp water
- 150g/5oz clotted cream
- to serve
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
- Grease and flour four dariole moulds.
- Roll out the pastry and carefully line each of the moulds
- retaining enough pastry for a lid for each pie.
- In a mixing bowl
- stir together the blueberries
- blackberries
- lemon juice and zest
- cinnamon and sugar. Fill the moulds with this mixture and place on a baking sheet.
- Top and seal with the remaining pastry. Make a slit in the top of each pie to release steam.
- Brush with egg and cook for about 20 to 30 minutes
- until the top is browned.
- Once cooked
- allow to rest
- before removing from the mould.
- Boil together the jam and water to make a glaze. Using a pastry brush
- smear the glaze over each pie.
- Serve with clotted cream.

