Perfect Peach Pie
Eat a perfect peach under the summer sun and you'll experience the fruit at its messy, dripping, sugar-bright best. Rinse your chin and understand that no melon, apricot or blackberry can compete. But how often does this happen? For most of us, a great and truly perfect peach is a rare event. We can expect but one or two a season, for all our trying. Enter the pie. A peach pie can elevate good peaches to excellence and great ones to the sublime. Even a peach pie made with frozen fruit is a terrific thing. The addition of sugar helps; so, too, do a dash of lemon juice and a light sprinkle of nutmeg, which offers a slight bitterness to offset the sweet. Add a crown of vanilla ice cream for a perfect diner-style à la mode effect.
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Ingredients
- or 300 grams all-purpose flour
- tablespoons or 169 grams unsalted butter, cold, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- teaspoon kosher salt
- Yolk of 1 egg, beaten
- teaspoon cider vinegar
- water, from 3/4 cup ice water
- White of 1 egg, beaten
- granulated sugar
- or 7 ripe peaches, peeled and sliced, approximately 5 cups
- tablespoons lemon juice
- or 30 grams all-purpose flour
- of ground nutmeg