Homemade Cherry Pie Recipe
Stuff you’ll need:
- Pastry for Two-Crust Pie
- 4 cups of fresh de-stemmed and de-pitted cherries
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract (optional)
- 2 tablespoons margarine or butter
Stuff you’ll need to Prepare:
- Preheat oven to 425F
- Prepare pastry for Two Crust Pie - 9 inch pans.
- Prepare pie pans (glass or metal: add a touch of oil, butter, Pam, etc - to extra-non-stick it).
- Combine cherries, sugar and flour and blend lightly. Most recipes advise adding a splash of almond extract, but I'm not sure why.
- Taste your cherries. Are they a touch too sweet? Add a splash of lemon juice. Too tart? Add a squirt of honey.
- Spoon into pastry shell.
- Apply a little butter/margerine here and there.
- Add the second pastry shell to the top, or use it to make a lattice crust.
- Fold edges of top pastry under bottom pastry.
- Press together to seal and flute edges.
- Cut slits in several place in top of pastry.
- Bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or until juice bubbles through the top crust.
Alternative / Options:
Create a show-stopping top crust by applying an egg wash and some raw sugar crystals!!
- To create an egg wash you’ll need an egg yolk and a splash of water, and a new ~2” paintbrush.
- Blend an egg yolk and a teaspoon of water. If the wash doesn’t appear to be easily spreadable with your brush, you may gradually add a little more water – but be careful of making the mixture too runny.
- Brush mixture on the top pastry of your pie – whether lattice or whole crust.
- This yeilds a shiny, golden-brown effect to the pie crust. Additionally, it allows things to stick – like a couple of sprinkles of raw sugar crystals. For the same effect, but with less shine, use the whole egg.
- For an additional neat presentation effect, use a decorative item to press into your pie shell fluting. Examples are something with grooves, lines, patterns, etc. If the texture is flexible, it can be wrapped around a pencil, using the pencil to press in the fluting
- Finally, add a sprig of spearmint (not catmint) to the top for presentation zing.
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