Before cutting up all of the fruit you might be baking with for Thanksgiving, have a quick taste-test by taking a small segment out with your fruit knife. If it’s not quite ready, leave it out to ripen for a few more days and it’ll be ready for whatever delish pie you’re going to make next week!
As the end of summer approaches, many bakers are looking to snag up the last of the ripe summer fruits to make pies, tarts, jams, sorbets, and many more yummy treats.
Peaches are one of this season’s prize fruits- they’re so juicy and sweet, which makes today (it’s Peach Pie Day!) a great day to bake with them.
What you’ll need for your peach pie:
Fresh peaches- about 8 cups, peeled & sliced
½ cup Sugar
1 tsp each of: cinnamon & vanilla extract
¼ tsp nutmeg
3-4 tbsp of cornstarch
Homemade or store-bought pie crust
A sharp fruit knife to cut into your juicy peaches
Mix the above ingredients together, place in your crust, and bake! Enjoy!
Make this Christmas festive-looking simply by using a fruit knife to carve and slice up oranges, apples, mangos, watermelons…..you name it. Don’t worry about making a mistake. You can eat your mistakes!
Here are some tricks anyone can do with fruit knives. You don’t need much experience in carving to get some interesting results. Just get a mango, orange, and an apple, and a fruit knife, and try to copy these gorgeous pictures.