Tuesdays with Dorie: Summer Fruit Galette

       This week's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, from the cookbook Baking:  From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, is Summer Fruit Galette, can be found on pages 366-367, and was chosen by Michelle from Michelle in Colorado Springs.   

      This was so much fun to make.  Really easy, and very tasty!  If you don't like fussing a lot with baking, but want something home baked, try this one! 

      We had our choice of stone fruits, and Matt wanted peaches, so peaches it was for us. 

      I made a smaller size dough and used only two peaches (they were very large, so it would probably be more like 3 regular size peaches in off-season).  The dough came together nicely, just as before when we made the blueberry pie...same dough recipe.  The assembly was very quick...marmalade (we used peach), honey cracker crumbs, and the fruit, dusted with a little sugar. 

       I baked it in the oven, while I assembled the custard mix...again, very easy, egg, sugar, melted butter, and vanilla...and after 25 minutes the custard was poured onto the whole thing and baked for another 15 minutes.  How easy was this? 

      I have never made a galette before.   The fruit was soft, but not mushy, the crust was flaky like maybe a danish type of flakiness, and the bottom was not at all soggy. 

      I am very surprised that with Dorie's recipes, you can have success straight away...sometimes it takes a couple of times to get a recipe just right, but I have to say that I am very happy with results on the first try with Dorie's recipes.  That, in my mind, makes a great cookbook!   I am going to make galettes more often from now on.  And, the taste:  well, here is one very happy teenager (Matt) enjoying his very large piece. 

      Next week's recipe is The Black and White Banana Loaf, found on page 232, and chosen by Ashlee of A Year in the Kitchen.  

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