This pie uses rahka, a kind of Finnish quark. It is a
bit sour like yogurt. I love to use rahka firstly because it is healthy, and
secondly its taste can balance the sweetness of the pie but still creamy. The Finnish people like to use rahka in their many desserts. I searched
for a while the recipes and chose one from Arla, I think it turned out pretty
well. I brought the pie to my friend house and they all like it. The recipe is
in Finnish, I tried to translate it into English. Probably it isn’t the best
translation but hope to give you the main ideas of how to do it.
Into the woods
In Luukki
Ingredients
Serve 8
For
the dough
2 1⁄2 dl flour
100 g butter (I substituted
by 72 g margarine)
3⁄4 dl sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. baking powder
Filling
1 dl milk
250 g quark (I used 200g)
1 egg
1 dl sugar
1 tsp. vanilla sugar
Topping
2-3 dl fresh blueberry
Directions
1. Mix the
egg, sugar and melted butter/margarine together. Combine the flour and baking
powder, and then add into the egg-sugar mixture. Mix the battle evenly. Press
the crust to the bottom and the edges of a greased baking dish (24cm).
2. Mix
the filling ingredients until smooth. Pour it over the base. Bake the pie at
200-degree oven for medium level for about 40 minutes. Decorate with fresh
blueberries on top of the finished cake.
I
added a handful of blueberry into the mixture just before baking.
Tips
To get the pie a festive
look, use ordinary blueberries to decorate instead of highbush blueberries.
In my opinion, it would even
better to serve with vanilla ice-cream, aren’t blueberry pie and vanilla
ice-cream best friends?
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