Jammie Dodger Pie

Since plums are in season, I wanted to make a plum pie.  Almost all of the recipes that I found called for clove.  But it is August, and I tend to think of clove as an autumn flavor.  Since plums have very little identifiable flavor of their own, I wanted to combine them with a summer flavor.  

I decided to turn to the flavor found in Jammie Dodgers.  A Jammie Dodger is a British shortbread sandwich cookie.  The filling is a raspberry flavored plum jam.  Jammie Dodgers were featured heavily on Doctor Who during the run of Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor.

To recreate the flavor in a pie form, I used the following recipe.

Ingredients:

4 black plums

4 red plums

6 oz of raspberries

1 cup of sugar

3 tablespoons of King Arthur Flour's Signature Secrets

2 pie crusts

Directions:

Pit and cut the plums into 8ths.  Combine the plums, raspberries, sugar and Signature Secrets in a large sauce pan over medium heat.  Cook the filling until the juices start to bubble and thicken.  Pour the filling into a pie crust.  Cut a heart into the center of the other pie crust and lay it over the filling.  Crimp the edges.  Brush the crust with milk and sprinkle with a handful of sugar.  Bake at 425oF for 10 minutes, then reduce the heat to 375oF and bake for another 35 minutes, or until the crust is a golden brown.  Let cool before serving.

The pie is fantastic.  The Signature Secrets makes a great filling: juicy, not gluey.  The raspberry flavor kind of dominates, probably due to the raspberries breaking down while the filling was being made.  The plums were cooked perfectly; which, in turn, gave the pie a great texture.  I would gladly make this pie again.

Piece out!

Justin