Free Cooking Recipes

A famous dish of Newfoundland.
for the dough
3 cups flour
11/2 sticks butter
I teaspoon sail
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2  cup sugar
1 egg
3-4 tablespoons rice or barley (optional)
for the filling
1 pound blueberries, washed
13/4 cups sugar

Directions:

1. Place the flour and butter in a bowl and work in the butter with the tips of the fingers until the mixture is like coarse crumbs. Add the salt. baking powder and sugar and mix lightly.
2. Whisk the egg with a fork in 2 tablespoons cold water until the yolk is broken. Add to the dry ingredients together with as little additional cold water as possible to make a soft dough.
3. Divide the dough into two equal portions. Turn out on a floured surface.
4. Press the dough with the heel of the hand to about 4 inch thickness. Place over the bottom and sides of a greased pan 12 x 9 inches (or the equivalent) and 2 inches deep. Trim the dough to fit. To prevent the bottom pastry from becoming soggy, sprinkle it with rice or barley before adding the blueberry mixture.
5. Mix the blueberries with the sugar, and spread the mixture all over the pastry in the pan.
6. Roll out the remaining dough, lay it over the fruit mixture, trim, seal and flute the edges. Prick the center with a fork and bake in the oven at 430° until golden brown.