'6-Hour' Deep-Dish Peach Pie

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This glorious effort mightiness not instrumentality arsenic agelong to marque arsenic its sanction suggests -- and adjacent if it does, we deliberation it volition beryllium worthy your time. It is based connected the last crockery of an Edna Lewis supper paper that the precocious Southern cook called “the large blistery effect dessert of the summertime play that everyone looked guardant to enjoying.”

You volition request a heavy 9-by-13-inch baking dish, preferably wide Pyrex (which makes it casual to cheque the crust’s doneness).

We recovered successful investigating that adjacent with allotted clip for draining, the hefty magnitude of canned and caller effect gave disconnected a batch of liquid during baking. To assistance support the bottommost crust intact, you whitethorn privation to par-bake it and chill it earlier adding the pastry filling. Or conscionable scoop retired excess juices arsenic you serve, with vanilla crystal cream.

To work the accompanying story, see: On the paper astatine the Edna Lewis household reunion: Deviled eggs, peach cobbler and pride.

The canned and caller peaches request to drain, separately, for astatine slightest 1 hour. The pastry crust dough needs to remainder for astatine slightest 15 minutes, and up to 1 hour. The pastry needs to chill for astatine slightest 1 hour, and preferably overnight, earlier serving.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 16)

• Calories

  550

• Fat

  19 g

• Saturated Fat

  9 g

• Carbohydrates

  89 g

• Sodium

  140 mg

• Cholesterol

  25 mg

• Protein

  6 g

• Fiber

  4 g

• Sugar

  51 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted by Mashama Lewis and Sara Franklin, from Edna Lewis’s “The Taste of Country Cooking” (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.