Cambrai-Style Fruit Pie
Origin: Buenos Aires
Source: Constanza Puch de Weigel, 1890
Ingredients
- puff pastry (hojaldre) layered with powdered sugar
- 6 bananas, thinly sliced
- 1/2 pineapple (ananá / piña), thinly sliced
- 6 peaches, in rounds with their pits
- 12 Tours plums (ciruelas de Tours)
- 6 cherries, raw if fresh
- 3 oranges, juiced
- 24 grapes
- 2 lb ground sugar
- 2 tbsp cinnamon
- 1 cup good Priorato wine
Instructions
- Make a puff pastry with powdered sugar between the layers.
- Slice bananas and pineapple; parboil peaches, plums, cherries, grapes and orange juice.
- Mix all fruit with sugar, cinnamon and Priorato wine, and macerate two hours.
- Fill a fireproof dish, cover with the pastry, and bake at moderate heat.