Ron: I'd like to leave.
Hermione: What?
You can't be serious.
Ron: It happens to be my sister!
Hermione: So?
Trolley Lady: Anything from the trolley, dears? Cho: Two pumpkin pasties, please.
Hey, what's up guys? Welcome back to "Binging with Babish"
Where this week, to celebrate my book being released in the UK,
We're making foods from a movie as British as Harry Potter.
That's right, Harry Potter. Let's start with pumpkin pasties.
Now, I know that taste tests have revealed
That canned pumpkin is almost indistinguishable from fresh pumpkin in the context of a pie but come on
This is Binging With Babish. We're gonna use fresh pumpkin. This particular type of pumpkin is even called sugar pie pumpkin
I mean that's gotta make for a good pie right?
We are scooping the seeds out of two small sugar pie pumpkins, and in the background
We are preheating our oven to 400 degrees
Fahrenheit. Hang on to the seeds, you gonna make yourself some pepitas, and place the pumpkin halves, cut side down, on a parchment lined
Baking sheet and roast for about 30 to 40 minutes until a paring knife, when inserted into the pumpkin, shows little to no resistance
Sometimes you'll have to scoop the flesh out of the skin
But sometimes the skin does the job for you. Now what I'm gonna
Do here is accidentally make way too much pumpkin pie filling, so I'm going to puree
Maybe 3/4 of the
roast pumpkin, to which I'm going to add a drizzle of heavy cream, a
Healthy grating of nutmeg, a little pinch of ground cloves, a solid teaspoon of cinnamon,
Another little pinch of allspice, a healthy teaspoon of vanilla paste, maybe half a cup of brown sugar
Maybe 1/4 cup of maple syrup,
1 large egg for a bit of structure, and a pinch of kosher salt for a pinch of saltiness. Puree the mixture until smooth adding
More pumpkin if necessary to adjust for viscosity
And if you're not afraid of raw eggs give it a taste because this stuff is really really really good
And you want to make sure that it's properly seasoned. Now
It's been a while since we made pie crust so I'm going to run a quick refresher
I've got a quarter cup each water and vodka that I'm going to place in the freezer until extremely- almost frozen
And I'm gonna measure out eleven and a half ounces of all-purpose flour
About two-thirds of which I'm going to place in the bowl of a food processor
Along with an ounce of sugar and a teaspoon of kosher salt
Pulse to combine before adding two and a half sticks of semi-frozen unsalted butter.
Remember when it comes to pie crust, the colder everything is, the better. We're going to process that for about 10 seconds until the mixture
becomes pebbly, transfer to a large mixing bowl, and begin adding our water vodka our "Wodker"
mixture a few tablespoons at a time, folding over with a rubber spatula
Add the remaining flour, the remaining "Wodker" and gently continue to fold, not mix
Until a shaggy dough forms that we're gonna wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 45 minutes
If not overnight because we've just filled this dough with tiny individual little pockets of butter
And we don't want those to melt. After it's rested,
We're gonna roll it out and cut it into four inch rounds. Ideally you want more like six inch rounds
But I've only got a 4 inch pastry cutter,
So I just rolled it out a little bit more. Brush one edge with beaten egg
yolk and fill with a tablespoon or two of pumpkin pie filling. Press the edges together on your little empanada and
Practice your pasty pastry skills crimping up the edge into a decorative sort of weave
Place on a parchment lined baking sheet and brush with egg yolk and give them a healthy
sprinkle of granulated sugar before placing in a 400 degrees Fahrenheit oven for about 20 to 30 minutes or until
Browned and crisp. Allow to cool almost completely before slicing open to take a look at that flaky little
cross-section. These pumpkin pasties turned out really very good
But they are the favorite of Cho Chang, not Harry Potter. For Harry Potter's favorite, we gotta go treacle tart.
It starts with a pie dough almost identical to one that we made earlier
But I'm gonna make it by hand instead of by food processor
So add the butter to the flour and salt and squeeze between your fingers until you get that same sort of pebbly texture
Albeit with bigger chunks of butter add the "Wodka" as before and fold until that shaggy dough forms.
We're making about a half batch here because we only need just enough pie dough to cover the bottom of a
12-inch removable-bottom tart pan so we're going to roll the dough up around our rolling pin like so and then
unfurl it on top of our tart pan and now we want to lift the dough in and
Press down to get it in all the corners. Don't stretch it, that's gonna
Make the dough pull away from the edges of the pan. Trim the excess and press into the sides of the pan. Poke a bunch
Of times with a fork at the bottom and gently line with aluminum foil that we're gonna fill
Ideally with some kind of pie weight.
I'm going to use
Cornmeal because that's all I have, and we are going to blind bake this for 10 to 15 minutes during which time we're gonna make
Our filling. Now ideally you want to use Lyle's Golden Syrup
This is the traditional treacle by which treacle tart is made. If you can't get a hold of it, just use some light molasses.
We're combining about 16 ounces of syrup with the two tablespoons of butter over a very low heat just until the butter melts
Turn off the heat.
Add 3 tablespoons of heavy cream, whisk rigorously until the mixture cools slightly, and then beat in a quarter cup of bread crumbs,
and 1 large egg. Make sure that the mixture is cooled off enough that we're not cooking the eggs
We just want to incorporate it
We don't want cooking to happen until it's in the oven. Take out our blind baked pie crust and fill with the filling and then
carefully...
carefully, place in a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven for
45 to 50 minutes or until a beautiful bubbling little vat of lava. Allow to cool completely before
extricating from the tart pan, plating up, and quickly throwing together a loose whipped cream.
I'm just eyeballing some sugar, some heavy cream, some vanilla paste,
and I'm whipping it until it's not too stiff. Cutting myself a slice. Already looks fantastic, the filling is this kind of gooey
Molten mess that just looks tooth-achingly delicious.
But let's find out if it tastes as good as it looks and I can tell you with complete confidence
That it does. This is maybe the most delicious dessert I've ever made in my life.
It's like
Caramel pie as you can see I'm having a hard time handling it. And as much as I've had my fill of sweets for today,
it would not be a Harry Potter episode without Butterbeer. I'm combining 1 egg white, 2 ounces of butterscotch schnapps
1 ounce of heavy cream, a tiny dollop of vanilla paste or vanilla extract, maybe half an ounce of simple syrup
And I'm going to shake this until frothy. Now, I know this is a drink
That's served to children, but it is described in the books as being slightly alcoholic
Hence, the schnapps. Now ideally we want to shake over ice but I am fresh out of ice so I have got my little stainless-steel
Whisky cube here. Should do the job. I'm gonna shake until very frothy
And then fill the glass about halfway with cream soda, adding a generous pour of woah woah woah woah w-
Okay maybe not such a generous pour, let's try that again. Fill a glass about halfway with cream soda and
gingerly add a very conservative pour of our butterscotch cream mixture for a sweet frothy
Mustache-messying beverage - one that you don't have to pay $50 for in an amusement park and, hey, it's got booze in it.