Fresh Berry Pie
- Total Time
- 25 minutes, plus 4 hours
- Rating
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Ingredients
- 1quart fresh strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or blueberries, washed and hulled if necessary
- 1cup sugar
- 2½tablespoons cornstarch
- ¼teaspoon salt
- 1cup water
- 1fully baked 9-inch pie shell
Preparation
- Step 1
Put 1 cup of the berries into a blender and puree them.
- Step 2
Combine the sugar, cornstarch and salt, mix well, add to the water and cook over low heat until thickened (about 10 minutes). Add the pureed berries and stir well. Cool.
- Step 3
Add the whole berries to the glaze, mix to coat them thoroughly and pour into the pie shell, distributing the berries evenly. Chill the pie for four hours and garnish with whipped cream.
Private Notes
Cooking Notes
My 15 year old granddaughter made this (with just a little help) using blackberries we had picked a few hours earlier. Easy and delicious. My husband thought it was the best fruit pie he had ever eaten. Wouldn’t change a thing. Look forward to trying with other berries.
Low to medium low and add a little more cornstarch, and plan for closer to 20 minutes for it to thicken.
Strawberries also need the juice of one lemon. If the strawberries are “store bought” ( in a Maggie Smith accent) and not fully ripe add both the puree and whole ones to the hot sugar glaze and let marinate before filling shell.
I used fresh blackberries. A little fresh lemon juice would add tang.
This was the perfect simple recipe! Thanks, NYT!
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