The Pie Recipes

Ingredients

• quality eggnog
• ¼ cup butter, melted
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 3 Tablespoons flour
• 3 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 Tablespoons light rum (I used Bacardi Gold)
• ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg (plus additional to dust the top of the pie)
• zest of one lemon
• 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
• 4 oz. cold butter, cut in pieces
• 3 Tablespoons cold water, (possibly 4 Tablespoons)
• 3-4 firm/ripe, not mushy/ripe pears (should equal about 4 ½ cups when peeled, cored and sliced)
• zest of one lemon and 1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
• 3 Tablespoons dark brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• optional but well worth it, seeds from half of a vanilla bean
• ½ cup apricot jam
• egg wash made with one egg yolk and a few tablespoons of milk or cream
• sanding sugar or Sugar in the Raw or granulated sugar for sprinkling the edge
• 1/4 cup toasted, blanched almonds, if you're a nut person