Peach Beehive Dessert
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Recipe Introduction
What an absolutely divine dessert!
List of Ingredients
Peach Beehive Dessert
8 extra large perfect peaches, unpeeled
2 pie crusts
hard Sauce (recipe follows), or whipped cream
Roll pie crust into an oblong shape and cut strips
1 inch wide. Wash, dry peaches. THEY MUST BE PERFECT!
Wrap the strips of the pie crust around starting for
the bottom of the peach until the peach is entirely covered.
(The skins are supposed to cook away while baking.) Pat
and patch the crust as you go along so there are no holes
Seal the edges. Place "beehives" on a cookie sheet and
bake for 40 minutes at 400 degrees. Serve hot with hard
sauce.
To eat:
Break the beehive in half, remove the stone ,and spoon a
heaping tablespoon (or more, to taste) of sauce into the
cavity. The peach skin has disappeared!
Hard Sauce
4 tablespoons sweet butter
1 unbeaten egg
2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Nutmeg
1 Tablespoon brandy
Cream butter. Add egg and mix well. Gradually work in 2
cups or more powdered sugar. the definite amount of sugar
you will add will depend upon whether you like a tight or
not-so tight hard sauce. Flavor with brandy.
Pile sauce into peach cavity and sprinkle with nutmeg.
Serves 8 lucky people.Recipe
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