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Downton Pie

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Hey hey friends!

Short and sweet today – this isn’t so much a recipe as it is a brainchild that actually came to fruition, of which I’m SO pleased and proud. Many of you will have already seen this on my insta, but I’m sharing it here too for blog posterity.

I made a Downton Abbey Pie! I really wasn’t sure I could pull this off and have it translate in pie dough, but somehow it worked. As usual for these crazy, once-a-year pies, this one was my donation to be auctioned off for the benefit of Lamplighters Music Theater at their yearly gala – so many friends, such a fun day! It was Downton Abbey themed and I couldn’t resist.

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For those of you interested in the specifics:

  • Total renderings for concept design: 2
  • Total time: 4 hours
  • Top crust design & construction: 2 hours
  • Bottom crust crimp & pie assembly: 1 hour
  • Bake time: ~shy of 1 hour
  • Essential tools: paring knife, bench scraper, rolling pin, hands, crappy pair of scissors
  • Amount of blueberries: somewhere close to 4 cups
  • Flour usage: just over 2.5 c of whole wheat pastry flour
  • Butter usage: just over half a pound
  • Refined sugar usage: none, of course!
  • Final bid: $65! YAAAY!
  • Amount of fun had and creative joy generated: defies description

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There you have it!

Pie. The Dowager might think it was chintzy, but I’m happy with it ;)

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Part of the SF Pie-Line

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Good morning!

I made another pie for auction this weekend, for my favorite Lamplighters! It feels so good to be able to help out a group of people and an organization that I love so much – on account of both the fave human and my good friends!

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I’ll keep this short today but I wanted to share pictures – I am SO proud of how this one came out, and I was definitely stressing the details.

Process pictures! Sorry for the crappy lighting – I was definitely more focused on making pie than I was taking good photos at that point.

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I used my usual pie recipe, found here. I made a double batch of dough so I’d have enough, plus some leftover for any potential last minute patch jobs (thankfully wasn’t needed!)

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Have a great week!

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