You will find the recipe for pastry on the page with the recipe for coconut cream pie (which happens to be Nano’s favourite) or you can find it under Pastry.
You will notice in that recipe I use lard to make my pastry. My mother taught me. It is actually the recipe from the back of the lard box. How often do you eat pie? If you are like me, not often.
So, let’s not ruin the experience. When we eat pie, lets eat the BEST pie. There is no pastry like pastry made with lard!!!
I whipped this pie together and popped it into the oven in 15 minutes.
I wanted a smallish pie since it will be just my husband and me and I don’t want an enormous pie around. I used an 8″ foil pan. Cover a cookie sheet with a piece of foil and place the pie on the foil.
Once your pastry is ready,
mix in a bowl, berries of choice (if you use strawberries you will need to cut them at least in half) Frozen berries work just fine.
Because berries get very juicy when they cook, you need to add some thickening or you will have juice all over the place and everywhere but where it should be, in the pie.
So, for an 8″ pie
preheat oven to 425
In a bowl:
toss together
5 cups berries. either fresh or frozen
2/3 cup sugar
2 TBLSP. flour
pinch of salt
1 TBLSP. butter broken into pieces and placed on top of berries.
If you have a lemon, add the zest from that lemon and the juice. If you don’t have one, it isn’t necessary.
place berry mixture in plate. You need enough berries to make a mound. They cook down so make sure you fill it up.
Cover with pastry. Make sure you pinch the edges together and then make five or six slits in the top of the pie to let the steam escape.
Bake at 425 for 40 minutes and reduce heat to 350. (Don’t open the oven door for 15 minutes after reducing heat).
continue baking for 40 minutes. Check every 20 minutes and if crust begins to look too dark, cover pie with a piece of foil.
The pie is finished baking when the pastry is golden and you see juice bubbling up around the top crust. It might end up boiling out a bit and your pie might look a bit messy but that’s when it’s best.
Enjoy