Which is your favourite fruit pie?

[RebelByLight]

Fruit pie has been requested for lunch tomorrow. My favourite (and the only one I know how to make) is apple but, out of principle, I'm never making DH another apple pie.

What's your favourite fruit pie?

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Sorry I had to get up to check on food. I meant I'd forgotten how nice gooseberry was but my favourite is cherry

Crumble is too unhealthy?! What an idiot.

Tell him to make his own pie and make a crumble for yourself. I like apple and blackberry the best - I even keep tinned fruit about in case I have the urge!

It depends what format it is:

Crust pastry:cherry or gooseberry
Crumble:apple, blackberries etc
Baked sponge:apple

Well that's my view on it anyway

Apple and blackberry.

Raspberry.

Apple

Cherry

Rhubarb

but I did used to love the cherry pie filling you got in a tin. Sadly, haven't been able to find any for years.

Bilberry. With a bottom crust so it can go all purple and soggily delicious. We used to go picking them on the moor every year and freeze ice-cream-tubfulls.

Apricot tart or lemon tart.

But if you're being strict about 'pie' then rhubarb is right in season now!

Ginger peach

Peach!

Gooseberry with late dm's pastry.

Blackcurrant

A very solid reason to never make your favourite pie again!

Two year frozen rhubarb will probably be okay in a pie, though you might want to do it as a mix in case it's lost some flavour. Maybe raspberries or blueberries?

I do make it for the Dc and me, just when DH isn't around. Unfortunately that means I haven't had any pie for over a year

I think pie should be a pie or a crumble. DH thinks a pie should be a pastry base, with the fruit in it and then a mixture of milk/cream/eggs/cornflour poured over it.

WTAF? that is not pie.

@TheYearOfSmallThings

Oh it's a fraochán.

Hard to find enough to make a pie!

I've never heard them called that before! Very popular in my part of lancashire.

@RebelByLight

I do make it for the Dc and me, just when DH isn't around. Unfortunately that means I haven't had any pie for over a year

I think pie should be a pie or a crumble. DH thinks a pie should be a pastry base, with the fruit in it and then a mixture of milk/cream/eggs/cornflour poured over it.

That sounds more like a fruit tart.

Hilarious that he thinks that's more healthy than a crumble!

@TheYearOfSmallThings it depends where you're from what they're called.
We pick whimberries up on the moors and often it's a family annual event to go out collecting, taking a picnic etc and returning home looking like you've been dragged through a hedge.x
www.fruitexpert.co.uk/why-do-we-not-hear-about-winberries.html

Apple obviously. But apart from that, DH makes a pear pie with chocolate pastry which is great and he recently made a heavenly one which was apricots, almonds and cardamom.

I like the sound of blueberry pie.

@FrankensteinIsTheMonster

Bilberry. With a bottom crust so it can go all purple and soggily delicious. We used to go picking them on the moor every year and freeze ice-cream-tubfulls.

So did we!

Cherry, though I love a good apple, too.
Ordinary shortcrust pastry, 3 tins of Asda black cherries, drained, a bit of the juice thickened with cornflour.

Mind you a cherry clafoutis (Asda tins again) is possibly even yummier and less of a faff.

@RebelByLight

I do make it for the Dc and me, just when DH isn't around. Unfortunately that means I haven't had any pie for over a year

I think pie should be a pie or a crumble. DH thinks a pie should be a pastry base, with the fruit in it and then a mixture of milk/cream/eggs/cornflour poured over it.

Well, clearly your dh is wrong.

I mean, his pudding sounds nice enough and I'd absolutely be up for being served a piece of that
BUT
A pie is clearly pastry on the bottom, sides and top and then fruit (or meat and gravy if that's your bag) in the middle.

Your DH likes flan and you like crumble?
So when your DH bakes he can make flan and when you bake you can make crumble.
I have solved your dilemma
Rhubarb and plum is good in a crumble with oats as part of of the crumble topping.