Stinking Bishop Quiche

After a few days of having that Stinking Bishop cheese in the fridge Nick and I were keen to get rid of it. It seriously stank the whole house up!  I have eaten my share of smelly cheeses but nothing compares to stinking bishop.  We are actually kind of embarrassed because we have had builders in and the smell is just slightly offensive.

Anyways I decided to make a quiche based on yet another recipe from Valentine Warner.  Which can be found here : Valentine Warner's Pear and Stinking Bishop Cheese Tarts

I started by combining 250 g plain flour, 25 g of sugar, and 150 g of butter in a food processor.  After this is well combined add one lightly beaten egg.  Pulse until a dough forms.  Easy as pie.. ha.

Roll the dough out and place it in your tin. Put this in the fridge for 30 min.  Preheat your oven to 200 C or 400 F.  Then take your dough out of the fridge, line it with baking parchment and baking beans, and blind bake it for 20 minutes.

While this is baking you can peel and slice 3 pears and brown them in 25 g butter and a teaspoon of sugar.  Set aside.  In a bowl, mix together 10 oz single cream (I actually used about 7 oz cream and 3 oz milk), with one whole egg and one egg yolk and some salt and pepper.

After 20 minutes take the crust out of the oven, remove the beans, and bake for another 1 or two minutes.  Then add the pears and the stinking bishop, cut into chunks.

Cover this with your cream and egg mixture.

It's now ready for baking.  Put it into a 180 C or 360 F oven for 25 - 30 minutes.

Voila!

This is a sweet, extremely pungent and rich quiche.  It should definitely be served with a simple salad and I think if I were to make it again I would increase the amount of pears and perhaps add leeks.  Overall it was good, but it sure did stink!  Consider yourself warned.