Name: Gammer Cholera
Yield: Makes one 23 cm pie, about 10 servings
Ingredients: Salt; 2 large white onions (about 450 g), peeled and finely chopped; Egg wash: 1 egg well beaten with a pinch of salt; 55 g unsalted butter; 450 g waxy potatoes, boiled until tender, cooled, peeled, and sliced 5mm thick; 2 large tart apples (about 450 g) such as Granny Smith, pared, halved, cored and thinly sliced; 450 g Goms or other Swiss raclette cheese, rind removed and thinly sliced; 1 batch Flaky Pastry Dough, divided into two pieces, one slightly larger than the other; Freshly grated nutmeg; Freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Makes one 23 cm pie, about
10
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake!

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2010

About

No one seems to really know how this delicious pie came to be named after a disease. One flimsy explanation states that people stayed indoors and cooked what they had, rather than venturing out to do food shopping during the 1830 cholera epidemic. The village of Goms in the Upper Valais is also well known for the quality of the cheese produced there, but any real Swiss raclette cheese will do nicely. This makes an excellent brunch or lunch dish served with a salad and then some sorbet and c