Blueberry Pie
- Preparing Pastry: 20 minutes
- Preparing Filling: 15 minutes
- Baking Time: 45 to 60 minutes
- Cooling Time: At least 1 hour
- Total Time: Approximately 2½ hours
Ingredients
- 1 standard 9-inch double pie crust
- ¾ to 1 cup sugar (adjust sugar based on tartness berries)
- ½ cup flour
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
- 6 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons butter cut into small pieces
- 1 tablespoon sugar (optional)
- 1 recipe Whipped cream (optional) or
- Vanilla ice cream
Instructions
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Preheat oven:
Standard Oven: 425° | Convection Oven: 400°
- Prepare 1 standard 9-inch double pie crust.
- In a small bowl mix together sugar, flour, and cinnamon.
- Pour blueberries into a large bowl.
- Pour sugar, flour, cinnamon mixture over blueberries and mix gently.
- Turn blueberry mixture into a 9-inch pastry-lined pie plate.
- Sprinkle blueberries with lemon juice and dot with butter.
- Cover with top crust.
- Seal and flute the crust.
- Make some slits in the top crust with a knife so that air can escape during baking.
- If desired, brush the top crust with cold water and sprinkle with a tablespoon of sugar.
- Cover the edge of the crust with a 2 to 3-inch strip of aluminum foil to prevent excessive browning.
- Bake 45 minutes to 1 hour or until crust is golden brown and juice begins to bubble through the slits in the crust.
- Remove foil during the last 15 minutes of baking.
- Do not undercook! The filling needs to heat through so that the flour can thicken up properly.
- Cool and serve.
Recipe adapted from Betty Crocker's Cookbook. New York: Golden Press (1980).
Comments
Serves 8 people.If desired, top with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
Place a cookie sheet or piece of foil under the pie pan to prevent the filling from bubbling onto the surface of the oven.
Note: Thickening berry pies is a very popular topic in the area of food science. I have tried using minute tapioca in place of flour, but did not like the texture or the aftertaste it left in my mouth.
I have also used cornstarch in place of the flour, but find that if leftover pie is refrigerated the filling ends up with a gritty texture to it.
Letting a pie cool completely will allow the thickening agent to set up. However, I tend to slice my pies while still warm, so that they can be eaten a la mode.
So, in the end I have decided to use flour as a thickening agent and, that my berry pies are just going to be a bit runny and that is okay with me.