Classic Ruddy Pie

If you lot follow my weblog regularly, you lot know that I savor combining recipes to teach an halt lawsuit that suits us. That's what I did alongside this cherry pie recipe.

The outset cherry pie recipe I tried tasted OK, but at that spot was a watery liquid inward the bottom of the pie that seperated from the filling...not a proficient thing.

Next, I tried a recipe that used flour every bit a thickener, but it left a cloudy filling ... non what I wanted.

Next I tried tapioca to thicken the filling in addition to it eliminated the cloudy fruit filling problem, but it was difficult to guage only how much tapioca was plenty in addition to how much was likewise much; it also produced inconsistent results...not good.

So, every bit usual, I took a lilliputian chip of this recipe in addition to added it to that recipe in addition to and thence threw inward a yoke of my ain ideas in addition to came upwards alongside todays recipe. I served it on Father's Day in addition to picky-picky hubby genuinely said  "This is THE best cherry pie I've ever eaten!!"  After I picked myself upwards off of the flooring (not literally, lol) , I knew I had a winner!!!

 

 

The filling is sweetness in addition to the crust is unbelievably flaky in addition to delicious.  Some people freak out alongside a pie crust that uses shortening, however, non solely does shortening arrive at a flakier crust, but it has HALF of the saturated fatty of butter!! NOTE: I ever us butter flavored Crisco inward my crusts.

CHERRY PIE FILLING

(2) xiv ounce cans unsweetened tart pie cherries
1 1/2  cups granulated sugar     DIVIDED
4 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons corn starch
pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon almond extract  (do non teach out out)
2 teaspoons butter, room temperature

Drain the cherries but SAVE THE LIQUID.  Put ane loving cup of the liquid into a heavy saucepan alongside the corn starch, tabular array salt in addition to HALF OF THE SUGAR, mix well.

Bring this mixture to a boil, piece stirring, in addition to laid upwards until it gets VERY THICK (only takes a infinitesimal or thence ane time it starts to boil (keep stirring fast).

Remove from rut in addition to stir inward the butter, almond extract in addition to the OTHER HALF of the sugar, mix well.  Gently flexure inward the drained cherries.  Let cool piece you lot brand the pie crust.

 

This is the all fourth dimension best pie crust I cause got EVER made in addition to I've made tons of them.  This dough handles beautifully (no involve to chill the dough) in addition to makes either three unmarried crusts or a large 2 crust pie alongside some left over. Everyone I've served this crust to is wild almost it.

PIE CRUST

4 cups all piece of occupation flour
1 3/4  cups butter flavored Crisco shortening
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup H2O ice mutual coldness water

Cut the shortening into the flour alongside a pastry cutter (or a yoke of forks) until the shortening is almost one-half the size of a light-green pea.

Mix the sugar, salt, egg, vanilla in addition to H2O ice water together, until good mixed, in addition to thence add together it all to the flour-shortening mixture. Work it alongside your hands until everything comes together inward a big ball. Try to exercise this fairly speedily thence that the rut of your hands doesn't melt the shortening. No involve to chill this dough.

Roll out a bottom crust, on a floured counter,  to fit a 9" pie pan.  Put the cherry filling into the bottom crust in addition to and thence brush the edges of the crust alongside a lilliputian egg white that has a few drops of H2O whisked into it (this volition assist "glue" the bottom crust to the exceed crust).

Roll out a exceed crust, on a floured counter, and lay it over the filled bottom crust.  Cut off the extra dough that hangs over the rim of the pie plate (see note). Pinch the exceed in addition to bottom crust edges together (or utilization a fork). 

After you lot cause got pinched the 2 crusts together, brush the exceed pie crust alongside to a greater extent than of the egg white launder (the same that you lot used to "glue" the edges ) in addition to and thence sprinkle the whole surface, lightly, alongside granulated sugar.

Cut several minor vent holes inward the exceed crust.  Bake inward 375 preheated oven for 35 to 45 minutes or until the crust is golden brownish (I commonly teach out it inward for 45 minutes). COOL PIE COMPLETELY BEFORE CUTTING.

 

NOTE: When you lot are trimming the excess unbaked crust from some the rim of the pie pan, teach out it only a lilliputian long thence that you lot tin dismiss tuck nether the border earlier you lot pinch the pie border into a design.

NOTE: I bake all of my pies on a cookie canvass only inward representative they tumble over.