Pastiera di grano (Wheat Pie)
Although I am a week late in posting about an Easter recipe, this is an important tradition in my family. My mother, Nancy Binger, makes this traditional Pastiera di grano (Wheat Pie) each year for Easter.
She was telling the story of how she came to perfect her recipe and technique just the other day. She said she had never made this pie until after her mother, Rose Amoroso, passed away. At which point she was on her own to carry on the family tradition without any of her mother's guidance.
Through the years she has gone from sending a whole individual pie to everyone in the family across to country (to my brother/her son in California, to my Uncle/her brother in Texas, to my Uncle/her brother in North Carolina, etc.) to just saving a slice for the lucky few who weren't able to eat Easter dinner at her house. But she has passed on the recipe through our Traditions Cookbook Website and actually called me out on having never made the pie with her. I guess this will be my Easter challenge for 2019.
At any rate, I do not have any of the process photographs for the steps in making this pie. But I do have one photograph of my glorious slice of pie that she saved for me. We had to leave before dessert to see my in-laws for Easter so I missed having a slice at her house.
She was telling the story of how she came to perfect her recipe and technique just the other day. She said she had never made this pie until after her mother, Rose Amoroso, passed away. At which point she was on her own to carry on the family tradition without any of her mother's guidance.
Through the years she has gone from sending a whole individual pie to everyone in the family across to country (to my brother/her son in California, to my Uncle/her brother in Texas, to my Uncle/her brother in North Carolina, etc.) to just saving a slice for the lucky few who weren't able to eat Easter dinner at her house. But she has passed on the recipe through our Traditions Cookbook Website and actually called me out on having never made the pie with her. I guess this will be my Easter challenge for 2019.
At any rate, I do not have any of the process photographs for the steps in making this pie. But I do have one photograph of my glorious slice of pie that she saved for me. We had to leave before dessert to see my in-laws for Easter so I missed having a slice at her house.
It was of course, delicious!
Now I know that lattice design takes a long time but a pastry wheel makes it that much easier. My Mother actually passed on my Grandmother's pastry wheel to my cousin/her niece and bought a replacement for herself. Looks like I will need one as well to carry on this tradition.
Now I know that lattice design takes a long time but a pastry wheel makes it that much easier. My Mother actually passed on my Grandmother's pastry wheel to my cousin/her niece and bought a replacement for herself. Looks like I will need one as well to carry on this tradition.