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Light and cheese-onion as the dominant flavors. These were easy and lighten the zucchini backlog.
I discovered this recipe first through The Kitchn, and found both their suggested link (with lovely photographs), and an earlier on-line version that attributes the recipe to a magazine, link above.
Its a bit involved - salting and draining the zucchini - but I saved time by freezing and grating the butter prior to cutting in. I also cut the 6 T butter to about 5T, as I consider the cheddar as another fat contribution.
I also substituted a small fresh onion from my CSA box for the green onions.
The result - light and crunchy, a delightful cheddar/onion flavor, and lovely flecks of green. Try them!
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Lovely flavor, but a very frustrating pastry dough. The dough is composed on eggs, flour, and butter - no water at all! It did come together in my (new) stand mixer, and I doubt I would have had the patience to make it by hand. The recipe's comments note the sticky nature of the dough, and the authors suggests not rolling it out, but instead to pat it into shape with wet hands. Instead I did roll it out, but between parchment sheets. To move it into the pan (a springform is called for), I had to refrigerate it (over night), and even still, had to pat the rips back together.
The pastry was sweeter than the filling, but both turned out quite well. I used speculaaskruiden spices, and a mix of granny smith and fuji apples. The dough did puff up while baking, and I was impressed at how beautiful it was when finished cooking. However, slicing and serving really wrecked the tablecloth - very messy.
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This is a special dutch spice mixture which is similar to pumpkin pie spice. This recipe provides the components and their ratio. The only negative is that if you only need about 1 tsp, you are stuck trying to estimate 1/20th of a tsp. For me, that is no issue, I just wing it. However I asked my engineer husband to prepare the spice mixture, and the exacting engineering side of his brain wasn't happy with "wing it". Nevertheless, this provided an interesting flavor for my Dutch apple pie, and the Dutch friend who organized the dinner told me it smelled authentic. Many thanks to BethNH for pointing out this recipe.
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