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Flinders Ranges B&B Accommodation, SA
Quandong Pie
Method:
1. Boil quandongs, apple, water, cinnamon and lemon in saucepan until soft (around 30 mins).
2. Add sugar and stir until dissolved
3. Let mixture cool
4. Line greased pie dish with pastry, brushing with egg wash on edges.
5. Pour cooled mixture into pie dish, cover with pastry. Brush with egg wash and sprinkle with sugar.
6. Bake in a moderate oven until golden brown. Serve with cream & ice cream…enjoy!
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Quandongs ~ Santalum Acuminatum ~ Native Wild Peach - Nuccaleena
August 25th, 2008 at 7:22 am
[...] your complimentary jar of dried Quandongs and have hopefully you have made them into our delicious Quandong pie recipe. If you haven’t yet you really must, it’s quite simple and really yummy! To check out [...]
Marisol
October 10th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Hi
Great recipe, only thing I found was that the pastry didn’t seem to cook properly on the base so might pre-bake it first when I next make it
Lisa
October 11th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Hey Marisol,
I sometimes have that problem too! Pre blind baking is a good idea or alternatively leave it in the oven a little longer (when it’s in a pyrex baking dish you can see the bottom browning up). I like to start the oven hot at about 220 degrees celcius for about 15 – 20 mins and then turn it back to about 190 degrees celcius for another half an hour or so, the pie tends to come away from the sides – the pastry appears to shrink. Just being careful to keep an eye on it burning, you could also place a piece of alfoil over the top when you think it is cooked well enough on top. I’m glad to hear you tried out the recipe! We are making it tomorrow night for a group of people we have staying in the Shearer’s Quarters – I hope the bottom cooks properly!!
Cheers,
Lisa
Debbie
October 21st, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Lisa, saw your recipe going to try it tomorrow night, I have a quondong tree at my house in Wirrabara. One thing if you could help me out. Blonde thing here, do I peel the fruit or just chop it. Sorry have never used them before, but I’m excited I have found your recipe,
Cheers
Debbie
Lisa
October 22nd, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Hi Debbie,
We prefer to stone and dry the fruit, usually out in the sun on trays (remembering to take them in before dark). Should only take 3 – 4 sunny days. The quandongs have been really big and thick skinned this year and make for a great pie!
I have never cooked the fruit fresh, maybe someone else could advise you on that?! We find that the dried quandong gives a really strong flavour. I hope this helps, enjoy your pie!
Lisa
Tim
November 26th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Hi Lisa and Debbie,
we’ve got a tree in Orroroo that we often a bucket of fruit off each year. Fresh fruit is fine to cook up, Anna made a pie not that long ago and I didn’t see any fruit drying before. Most of mine I just like to stew and serve hot with “lashings of cream and ice cream”.
The quote is from Brian Powell the late arid plant legend. I overheard someone ask him once what’s better, cream or ice cream and he replied “BOTH”.
Melanie
September 19th, 2011 at 8:45 pm
I have just harvested a huge crop of quandongs in suburban Adelaide (they must have liked the wet summer and winter). The seed for the tree was from one of Brian Powell’s cultivars and the fruit are big. I have just stewe d them up fresh. Have added stewed or tinnned pie apple and made a crumble topping. Yum.
Melanie
September 19th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
By the way, hello to Debbie from Wirrabara. My mum has kept Grandpa’s old house on West Terrace, and I planted a quandong tree in a corner of the front garden.
Bluey
October 9th, 2011 at 1:34 pm
My Mother taught me how to make Quandong pies when I was a kid just on eighty now.I have two trees at my dougout in White Cliffs, that I grew from seeds they produce quite well, around a bucket each year. They take about seven years to bear fruit . We live in Broken Hill now but still own dougout, my son looks after things.Rhubarb in pie good.