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German Cottage Cheese and Currant Pie
An open butter-pastry pie filled with cottage cheese, currants, eggs, sugar and cinnamon.
Method
Steps
Step 1
For the proposed sweet crust, rub the 125 g cold pastry butter into flour, the 25 g pastry sugar and salt to coarse crumbs.
Step 2
Add cold water gradually just until the dough holds, flatten, wrap and chill 30 minutes.
Step 3
Roll to about 3 mm, line a 23 cm dish and chill again before the recipe's stated filling and baking sequence.
Step 4
Heat oven to 180 °C and line a 23 cm plate with chilled proposed pastry.
Step 5
Mix drained cottage cheese, the 15 g soft filling butter, 50 g sugar, eggs and currants; fill shell and sprinkle with the 15 g topping sugar and cinnamon.
Step 6
Bake 35–45 minutes until crust golden and egg-cheese filling set through. Rest before slicing; serve warm or chilled.
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