In June I went on a road trip to east Texas and Oklahoma with my mom, her sister Pat and my sister Kaley. While we were in Mineola, Tx, where my mom’s dad was from, we stopped in a little shop that was making hand pies. We each bought several different flavors to enjoy on the long drive home. I thought all summer about those pies and knew when Colorado Peach Season arrived, I would make my own hand pies with peaches.
Colorado peaches hail from the Western Slope in Palisade where they have a festival every September for their peaches. Colorado’s long summer days and cool nights is the perfect combination to make their peaches extra juicy and extra sweet. They are incredible and sought after across the United States. Every September I buy two boxes of Palisade peaches to make pies and filling to freeze for the winter. While making my pies I made a few hand pies to have for dessert after dinner tonight. If you don’t live in Colorado to easily grab a box or two, I recommend you jump in your car or a plane or a train….whatever you have to do to get here for peach season! And if you’re from Georgia, you ain’t got nothin’ on us, sis!
Here is how I made my peach hand pies.
Ingredients
- 2/3 Cups Sugar
- 1/3 Cup Flour ( King Arthur is my favorite)
- ¼ Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- 5-ish Large Sliced Peaches from Colorado and (this step is crucial) Colorado only
- 1 Teaspoon Lemon Juice (I don’t care what state the lemon is from)
- Your favorite pie dough – recipe or store bought!
Directions
This recipe should make approximately 4 hand pies.
- Cut up five peaches (try to not eat the peaches as you cut them)
- Using a deep skillet or pot, begin to boil 3 cups oil
- Add cut up peaches to a large bowl with all other ingredients
- Mix together until peaches are covered. There should be some juice at the bottom of the bowl.
- Cut pie crust into a 4-5inch diameter
- Fill half of the pie crust with peach filling
- Fold the pie crust in half pressing the ends together to secure the peach filling inside the crust
- Add hand pie to boiling oil until brown and crispy
- Remove from oil and lay between paper towel to absorb excess oil
- Eat the pie in merriment adding powdered sugar and/or ice cream!!
- This recipe should make approximately 4 hand pies
