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- Subject: Blueberry pie
- Message-ID: <199508092327.UAA09286@Fox.NSTN.Ca>
- From: Joanne Cook <jcook@Fox.NSTN.Ca>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 20:36:48 GMT
-
- In response to the request for blueberry pie, here is our favourite (I
- invented it at the end of a long day of picking raspberries and blueberries
- in the Tantramar area of New Brunswick some years ago. It's now a family
- standard.)
-
- 1 quart wild blueberries
- 1/3 cup sugar
- juice of 1/2 - 1 lemon, depending on size of lemon and amount of juice
- pinch of cinnamon
- pinch of nutmeg
- 1 tbsp corn starch
-
- 1/2 cup raspberries
-
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- a few drops vanilla
- a few drops almond extract
- 1 tbsp fruit or icing sugar
-
- 1 pie shell: either a baked pastry shell or a graham cracker crumb crust
- ; we lean toward the graham wafer one.
-
- Put half of the blueberries into a heavy bottomed saucepan with the
- cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, and lemon juice. Heat gently until bubbling. Draw
- off about 1/4 cup of the juice, mix in the cornstarch, then stir back in.
- Stir gently until thickened and the raw starch flavour is gone. Taste and
- adjust seasoning if needed.
-
- Mix in the reserved raw berries and fill the pie shell. Whip the cream
- together with the fruit sugar and vanilla and almond extract to taste.
- Decorate the pie with the whipped cream and the raspberries.
-
- Enjoy the taste of summer!
-
- Joanne Cook
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- jcook@fox.nstn.ca
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