My Grandmother's Fruit Pie.

Good old fashioned recipe, this is! Hide away your measuring cups and scales, you not going to need them for this pie. The only advice I can share is, please be careful with the baking time and temperature. I veer on the cautious side , gas mark 4/175C and baking time just under 1 hour , checking every now and then.
You are going to need:
3 eggs
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of self-raising flour
1 tsp of baking powder
1 tsp of vanilla extract
400gr or so of ripe plums quatered (out of season try cooking apples)
Preheat the oven.
Prepare the plums and butter generously the pie dish.

Whip up eggs and sugar for about 5 min., until light and fluffy.

Add flour, baking powder,vanilla extract , mix well, but don't over-beat, as the baking powder may lose its quality if whipped for too long.

Arrange the plums in the pie dish and pour the cake mixture on top.

Sprinkle with some brown sugar and pop it on the middle shelf of your oven. Keep an eye on it. When the cake is ready the top should be hard as a kind of meringue , check the inside with a toothpick , it should come out clean.

Serve with cream, best eaten warm! Plum pie does not live long, if you want to make it ahead I would recommend using apples, they give less juice, therefore the top stays crispy for longer.