Tìmballo di pere Martine - Martine Pear Pies
Armando Monte (1968), Alba
Ingredients:
150g corn meal flour
75g wheat flour, l00g butter
100g sugar, 3 egg yolks
500 Martine pears, or small, very sweet flavoursome pears
bottle Dolcetto wine
300 sugar
A piece of cinnamon
10 cloves
Sift the corn meal flour, add the wheat flour, the egg yolks, sugar and butter. Work into a dough and roll out to finger thickness.
Line a buttered pie dish with the dough and add the pears that have already been cooked in the sugar and wine with the cinnamon and cloves. Cover with the remaining dough.
Place in a cool oven, and gradually raise the heat during cooking until the pastry is cooked.
