Triple Berry Pie
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This recipe is for a two-crust deep dish pie. If you plan to create pie art, you'll need to double the crust recipe for a generous amount of dough. (You can always freeze some if you don't use it all.)
Ingredients
  • FILLING:
  • 5 cups mixed berries - fresh or frozen (I used raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ cup instant tapioca, ground finely if possible
  • PIE CRUST:
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup chilled shortening
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 1 tablespoon vodka (or you may use vinegar)
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 400 F
  2. FILLING:
  3. In a large bowl, combine the berries, sugar, lemon juice, salt, and tapioca. Stir well and allow mixture to sit while you work on the crust. This will give the tapioca time to soften.
  4. CRUST:
  5. In large bowl, combine flour and salt. Work in shortening with fingers or a pastry blender until there are no large lumps. (Anything the size of a pea or smaller is fine.)
  6. Combine milk and vodka and pour into flour mixture all at once.
  7. Toss the mixture with fork or fingers until it holds together.
  8. Divide into two pieces, with one piece a little bit larger than the other.
  9. Put the larger ball of dough on a floured piece of parchment and flatten into a disk. Dust with flour and lay a second piece of parchment over the dough. Roll out until large enough to cut a circle that is at least 1 inch larger than your pie pan. Remove top parchment and cut dough into circle.
  10. Slide a flat baking sheet under the bottom parchment. Put your pie pan upside down in the center of the dough circle. With one hand under the baking sheet and one hand on the pie pan, flip both over. Remove baking sheet and carefully peel back parchment. Ease dough into the pan.
  11. Fill the pie crust with filling.
  12. Roll out the smaller piece and cut a circle a little bigger than the pie pan. Gently roll onto a rolling pin and lay over the filling. Press the edges together, fold them under, and flute the edges.
  13. Bake at 400 F for 10 minutes, then - without opening the oven door - turn the temperature down to 350 F. Bake for additional 40 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown.
  14. Move pie to a rack and allow it to cool. If served warm, it will be a little runny. If cooled (or chilled) it will hold its shape when cut.
  15. Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Recipe by The Rowdy Baker at http://www.therowdybaker.com/?p=4575