| Moms Birthday Pie for Doug |
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Ingredients:
Fresh Berries
Butter
Pie Crust
Lemon Juice
Sugar |
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Instructions:
Select ripe, juicy berries (blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, loganberries, or boysenberries). Berries picked at the height of the season are more flavorful, require less sugar, and make the most delicious pies.
1. Wash berries, drain well.
2. Then pick them over.
3. Remove stems and hulls.
Use the smaller or larger amount of sugar according to your taste and the sweetness of the fruit.
Very tart fruit may require even more sugar (up to 1-1/2 cups for 1 quart).
Make Pastry for Two-crust Pie of desired size. Line pie pan.
For the filling:
Mix:
9 in. pie: 1 to 1-1/2 cups sugar, 1/3 Gold Medal Flour, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
8 in. pie: 2/3 to 1 cups sugar, 1/4 cup Gold Medal Flour, 1/2 tsp, cinnamon
Mix lightly through:
9 in pie: 4 cups of fresh berries
8 in. pis: 3 cups fresh berries
Pour berries into pastry lined pie pan.
Dot with:
9 in. pie: 1-1/2 tbsp butter
8 in pie: 1 tbsp butter
Cover with top crust which has slits cut in it. Bake until crust is nicely brown and juice begins to bubble through slits in crust. Serve slightly warm, not hot.
Temperature: 425 (hot oven)
Time: Bake 35 to 45 min.
For Blueberry: Follow recipe above usining minimum amount of sugar. For tart flavor, add 1 tbsp lemon juice.
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