Crust: ¾ cup butter 2 cups flour ½ cup water ¼ tsp salt

Cut the butter into the flour until it's crumbly and there's no dry powder.

Dissolve the salt into the water, then stir it into the flour and butter. Stir to make a soft dough. It will be a lot like cookie dough.

Stick it in the fridge to chill until hardened.

Preheat oven to 350° F.

Filling: 5 cups chopped apples 1/3 cup honey 1 Tbsp arrowroot powder, flour, or corn starch ½ tsp allspice ½ cup redcurrant jelly*

Stir together the apples, arrowroot, allspice, and honey.

Roll out half the crust dough on a piece of waxed paper dusted with flour. Use flour as necessary on top and bottom to prevent sticking. Roll to 1/8”.

Dust the pie tin with flour. Use the waxed paper to flip the crust over into the pie tin. Trim the edges and fill in any holes.

Spread the redcurrant jelly in the bottom of the crust, then put in the apple mixture.

Roll out the rest of the crust dough to make the top crust. Do whatever type of design you want.

Bake for 45-60 minutes, until the crust is golden brown and the apples are soft.

*If you have fresh or dried redcurrants available to you, make a quick sort of jam by cooking them with water and honey, and mashing them up. Alternatively, you could stir the plain redcurrants in with the apples instead of using jam.

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2 cups water or veg. stock 1/3 cup diced onion 1 cup roughly chopped carrots 2 ½ cups roughly chopped beets 2 cups milk or nut milk ½ tsp salt ½ tsp pepper 1/8 tsp dried mint leaves 1/8 tsp dill weed 1/8 tsp thyme

Boil the beets, carrot, and onion in the water, until beets and carrots are soft. Transfer to a blender and blend until it's a thick liquid. Return to stove, over low heat. Add the milk and seasonings. Stir until heated through.

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1 onion 1-2 Tbsp butter 2 ½ cups carrots, chopped into 1” pieces 4 eggs ½ cup half and half ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp pepper 1/8 tsp crushed mint leaves

Thinly slice the onion. Place in a pan over med-low heat with butter and cover, stirring occasionally. When the onions are soft, remove cover and continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion pieces are browned.

At the same time, boil the carrot pieces in salted water, until the fat pieces of carrot are easy to stab with a fork.

Drain the carrots and puree with the half and half, making it as smooth as you can get it.

Preheat oven to 325° F.

Butter a pie tin and spread the onion evenly over the bottom.

Beat together the eggs, carrot puree, salt, pepper, and mint. Pour evenly over the onions.

Place the pie tin in a larger pan with water in it. Bake until it is a set custard, and a toothpick or knife inserted in the center comes out clean, about 60 minutes.

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½ cup butter 3 Tbsp sugar 1 ¼ cup fresh or frozen cranberries 1 cup flour ½ cup applesauce ¼ cup honey ½ cup corn meal 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp baking soda ½ tsp salt 2 eggs 1 Tbsp minced candied ginger, or ½ tsp ground ginger

Preheat oven to 350° F.

Melt ¼ cup butter in a pan over medium heat. Add the sugar, stirring to dissolve. Add cranberries. Let cook, stirring, until the cranberries are all cracked up. Pour this mixture into a greased bread loaf pan (5”x9”), distributing evenly over the bottom.

Stir together flour, corn meal, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and ginger.

Beat together the remaining butter, applesauce, and honey, until the butter is in small chunks. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Slowly beat in the flour mixture, until combined. Spoon into the pan over the cranberries, spreading evenly and smoothing the top.

Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Let cool for 15 minutes before inverting to remove from pan.

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12 oz plums 2 Tbsp arrowroot powder 1 cup flour ½ cup almond meal 2 tsp baking powder ¼ tsp salt ½ cup applesauce 1 egg ½ cup milk or nut milk ½ cup honey ¼ tsp almond extract ¼ cup chopped almonds

Preheat the oven to 375° F. Grease and flour a 9-inch cake pan.

Remove the pits and roughly chop the plums. Combine them with the arrowroot powder in a small bowl and set aside.

In a large bowl, stir together the flour, almond meal, baking powder, and salt.

In a separate bowl, combine the applesauce, egg, milk, honey, and almond extract. Whisk to blend thoroughly.

Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture and whisk until just combined.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Gently place the plum mixture evenly over the entire top of the batter. Since the plums will displace the batter, it is important to make an even layer as you put it down. Put the plums all the way to the edge. Sprinkle the chopped almonds on top.

Bake the cake for 45-50 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

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Makes just under 1 quart.

3 cups damson plums, pitted and coarsely chopped ½ cup honey or a mix of honey and pure maple syrup 1/3 cup lemon juice 2 Tbsp finely grated apple, raw and unpeeled

Combine the plums, honey, lemon juice and apple in saucepan. Bring to boil, reduce heat, but maintain boil. Stir and mash with a potato masher for about 15 minutes, or until thickened. Pour into prepared jars and process in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes, or 20 minutes for high altitude.

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Makes just under 1 quart.

2 lb damson plums, pitted and cut in half 1 cup honey or mixed honey and pure maple syrup ¼ cup finely grated apple, raw and unpeeled

In a large pot, combine all ingredients. Bring to a boil over low heat, stirring frequently. When it becomes soupy, increase heat and bring to a full boil.

Stir slowly as it cooks for 15 to 20 minutes. It will thicken and darken. Try to get it up to 220° F. (Higher elevations will not get the temperature up that high, so do your best.)

Pour into prepared canning jars, giving at least ¼ inch of headspace. Seal and process for 10 minutes in a boiling water bath, or 20 minutes at high elevation.

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5 cups of damson plums, pitted and quartered ¼ cup brown sugar ¼ cup flour

1 cup flour ¾ cup rolled oats 2 Tbsp honey ½ tsp salt ½ tsp cinnamon 1 egg, beaten ¼ cup butter, melted

Preheat oven to 375° F.

Stir together the plums, brown sugar, and flour. Pour into a 9” baking pan.

Stir together the flour, oats, salt, and cinnamon. Stir in the honey, egg, and melted butter. Crumble over the top of the fruit. Bake for 40 minutes.

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Filling: 3 cups chopped apples 3 cups chopped plums ¼ cup brown sugar ½ tsp ground ginger

Topping: ½ cup flour ¾ cup nut flour 1 cup rolled oats ¼ cup honey ¼ cup butter

Preheat oven to 375° F.

Stir together the apples, plums, brown sugar, and ginger. Put in a 9” baking dish. Stir together the oats, flour, and nut flour. Cut in the honey and butter until there are no more large chunks. Sprinkle the topping over the fruit.

Bake for 30 minutes.

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¾ cup flour ¾ cup rolled oats 1/3 cup cold butter ¼ cup sour cream or plain yogurt

Preheat oven to 350° F.

Stir together the flour and oats. Cut in the butter until crumbly and there's no dry powder. Stir in the sour cream/yogurt.

Sprinkle flour in the pie tin, then dump the dough in and press it evenly onto the bottom and sides. It can be baked now, or chilled for a sturdier crust.

For a half-baked crust, when the filling is to be baked for 30 minutes or less, bake the crust alone for 10 minutes. For a fully baked crust, bake alone for 15-20 minutes. If the crust does not need to be pre-baked, use the baking time for the pie filling recipe.

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