Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
While grocery shopping yesterday, I impulse bought some blueberries. I thought I'd make a pie. I got home and searched for a recipe because I wanted to do it right away.
First problem: Blueberries are sold in pints. Recipes call for cups of blueberries or pounds of blueberries. Upon checking I find I have just under 6 cups of blueberries (1Lb, 14.625 Oz).
OK, search for a recipe that calls for up to six cups of berries. I found several.
Second problem: Quantities are all over the place. Flour - anywhere from 5 tablespoons to 1.5 cups. Lemon juice - anywhere from a 'squeeze' to a half cup.
So I picked a recipe:
5 cups Blueberries
1 Tb Lemon Juice
1 C Sugar
1/2 C Flour
Salt
Cinnamon
2 Tb butter
Combine everything but the butter. Put it into the pie plate with a bottom crust in place. dot with butter, top crust brushed with egg, bake. 400ºF 35 minutes or until crust is golden.
I baked it on a cookie sheet near the bottom of the oven so the bottom crust would cook. It didn't.
I floured the bottom crust well before I put it into the pie plate so it wouldn't stick. That worked well.
Here's the thing. The filling was disappointing. All that flour and the filling is still runny, This morning there is a blueberry puddle in the pie plate.
When I was mixing the filling with the dry ingredients, it seemed like there was a lot of dry ingredients. When I served the pie last night, there were unsightly blobs of the white flour/sugar mixture in with the blueberries. I expected that to disappear. It's pretty unsightly.
BOTTOM LINE:
I shouldn't have rushed. I should have taken the time to ask you guys for a TNT recipe I could count on.
Lesson learned.
Does anyone have a TNT recipe for blueberry pie they are willing to share?
Thanks.
First problem: Blueberries are sold in pints. Recipes call for cups of blueberries or pounds of blueberries. Upon checking I find I have just under 6 cups of blueberries (1Lb, 14.625 Oz).
OK, search for a recipe that calls for up to six cups of berries. I found several.
Second problem: Quantities are all over the place. Flour - anywhere from 5 tablespoons to 1.5 cups. Lemon juice - anywhere from a 'squeeze' to a half cup.
So I picked a recipe:
5 cups Blueberries
1 Tb Lemon Juice
1 C Sugar
1/2 C Flour
Salt
Cinnamon
2 Tb butter
Combine everything but the butter. Put it into the pie plate with a bottom crust in place. dot with butter, top crust brushed with egg, bake. 400ºF 35 minutes or until crust is golden.
I baked it on a cookie sheet near the bottom of the oven so the bottom crust would cook. It didn't.
I floured the bottom crust well before I put it into the pie plate so it wouldn't stick. That worked well.
Here's the thing. The filling was disappointing. All that flour and the filling is still runny, This morning there is a blueberry puddle in the pie plate.
When I was mixing the filling with the dry ingredients, it seemed like there was a lot of dry ingredients. When I served the pie last night, there were unsightly blobs of the white flour/sugar mixture in with the blueberries. I expected that to disappear. It's pretty unsightly.
BOTTOM LINE:
I shouldn't have rushed. I should have taken the time to ask you guys for a TNT recipe I could count on.
Lesson learned.
Does anyone have a TNT recipe for blueberry pie they are willing to share?
Thanks.