Monday, March 24, 2014

Impossible!

I am in awe of impossible pie.

If someone actually said:  "look, just make a custard and chuck in a cup of coconut and half a cup of flour and it will turn itself into a pie..."

Well, that would sound ridiculous, wouldn't it?  Impossible, almost.

But that happens!  You just make some gloop that basically involves putting coconut and flour into custard and poor the gloop into a pie dish, and then physics makes a pie!  The coconut rises to the top to form a crust, the flour sinks to the bottom to form a base, and the custard hangs around the middle for form a filling.

It's amazing!

It's also delicious, and is completely unfazed by replacing the flour with a gluten-free substitute.  I made one on the weekend using a straight swap - half a cup of gluten-free flour for half a cup of plain flour.  You couldn't tell it wasn't made with normal flour.  The magic pastry looked, tasted and felt just fine.

It's magic!  Impossible!  Good.

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