Vermont · Dessert
Vermont Maple Syrup Pie
- Intermediate
- 75 min
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with a sweet edge rounding the corners, toasted, nutty warmth throughout, settling low and earthy.
Ingredients
- 1 unbaked 23cm pie shell
- 300ml dark maple syrup
- 150g brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 55g butter, melted
- 3 tbsp flour
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 150g walnuts, toasted and chopped (optional)
The skills inside
The wobble & the skewer: testing a bake
The words inside
Mandoline & the Slicing Machines
Allergen screen
Found: gluten · dairy · egg · nuts
Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.
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Method
- Whisk the syrup, brown sugar, and melted butter together.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the flour, vanilla, and salt.
- Scatter the walnuts in the shell if using and pour the filling over.
- Bake at 180C for 45-50 min until the edges are set and the center still wobbles slightly. 50 min
- Cool completely before slicing: it sets as it cools.
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
The wobble & the skewer: testing a bake 135 recipes
- Tested at the true centre and the thickest point, not at the convenient edge: the edge is done long before the answer is.
- The skewer comes out as the recipe describes, clean and dry or carrying the stated moist crumb, and it does the same on a second test in a different spot.
- The wobble is read in motion: nudged, the centre moves as one set mass with a faint tremble, rather than a liquid ripple travelling across the surface.
- The other signs agree with the test: risen and just shrinking from the sides, the top set and dry to a light touch with no wet gloss on it.
- Pressed lightly at the middle it springs back and leaves no lasting dent.
Where it goes wrong It was judged on the clock and on how the edges looked, so a centre still liquid went to the rack and sank as it cooled, a dense wet seam under a perfectly browned top.
At the Table
- The Pour
- Tawny Port
- Also Right
- PX Sherry or bourbon
- From the Taps
- Barleywine
- Zero-Proof
- Cold-brew coffee
Caramel echoing caramel: oxidative aging built the same flavors into the glass that the pan built into the plate.
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