Danny Wier's PIE (was Re: Vocab #5)

Danny Wier wrote:

>Incidentally, one of my invented recipes involves marinating apples (and
>raisins, dried cranberries, dates, almonds, whatever you want) in a mixture
>of sweet red wine (kosher wine would work well), allspice, cloves, orange
>and lemon peel, cinnamon and some other things, then bake the mixture in a
>pie, and finally glaze with honey or caramel. The fruit and wine mixture of
>course is known as charoset (or charoses), the traditional Passover
>favorite, so this is a type of "charoset pie". (That's why I suggested the
>kosher wine.)
That sounds yummy.  Will try. Are proportions important? I suspect not ;-)
Preserved orange/lemon (i.e. citron) or freshly grated? or doesn't matter?
Not a consideration for me, but OOC is pie-crust Kosher?

>I also have an idea for an Elven recipe for leg of lamb rubbed in various
>herbs and spices and glazed with honey.
Never added the honey, but it sounds interesting too.
>
>~Danny~

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