Melly-Sue's Seasonal Pie

This is my own recipe for the most amazing pie-crust I know. I usually top it with 3-4 apples, but this time, I used local plums and strawberries, as they were readily available. 

Seasonal pie with Strawberry/Plum topping*

Ingredients
225g butter or margarine
1 cup brown soft/muscavado sugar
1 cup flour
0.5 cup milk
1 large egg
1 tsp. baking powder
(+ 300-400g fruit or berries and sugar for the topping*)

Price Tag
Under £10.

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 200C.
2. Melt the butter and mix with sugar.
3. Add the flour, followed by the other ingredients. Mix well.
4. Pour the dough into a buttered pie dish. It should be quite runny, it's not your regular, hard crust. 
5. Add the topping* you want. 
6. Bake for about 30 minutes. 

Fruts and berries!

*Strawberry/Plum topping

Zest of half a lemon

200g strawberries
200g plums
Sugar to sweeten

1. Remove the stones from the plums and slice them.
2. Remove the straws from the strawberries and half them. 
3. Add half of the fruits to a bowl and mash.
4. Squeeze in the zest of lemon to the bowl.
5. Add sugar to sweeten. 
6. Spread the mix evenly on top of the pie crust. 
7. Decorate the topping with the remaining strawberries and plums. 

Enjoy!