Pie for Pi Day
Yesterday (3/14) was Pi Day, so I baked a pie. We loved the apple-blackberry boysenberry pies we bought in Julian last weekend (did I tell you we drove up to Julian in the pouring rain and walked around and had lunch and bought wine and pie and had a lovely time?) and I wanted to make something similar but couldn’t find fresh or frozen blackberries boysenberries so bought raspberries instead.
I made the pie similar to my regular apple pies but left out one apple, added an entire bag of frozen (thawed) raspberries, and skipped all the spices.
So: five apples peeled and chopped, one bag of raspberries, mixed with a cup of sugar (this made a VERY sweet pie, could probably cut back on the sugar), a half-cup of flour, a half-teaspoon of salt (or so).
Pour into pie crust (I use a Trader Joe’s frozen crust). We like crumb topping: 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup flour, a bit more than an 1/8th cup cold butter. Cut everything together as if making pie crust; sprinkle all over pie.
Bake at 425 F for 15 minutes, then for an hour at 350. Cover with foil towards the end so it doesn’t burn.
It turned out AMAZINGLY delicious.
Category: Blog, Recipes 6 comments »
March 15th, 2010 at 10:44 am
I think the Julian pies were boysenberry?
March 15th, 2010 at 10:44 am
Also, the pie you made was SOOOOOO GOOD!
March 15th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Ooo you’re right, they were boysenberry! Fixed! I’m glad you liked it :)
March 15th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
That looks amazing!!
March 15th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Looks amazing! I love making pies.
March 18th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Good gracious, that looks yummy!