#STRAWBERRY PIE HOW TO#
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Refrigerate the rolled crust and preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Roll out your pie crust, place into your pie dish and prick with a fork all over the surface.

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Feel free to purchase a prebaked pie shell or make your own from scratch.

Turn the heat up to high and bring the smashed strawberries to a boil. Smash the berries, sugar, salt, lemon and orange zest with a potato masher, the low heat will help to soften the berries slightly to aid with the smashing. Place roughly sliced strawberries in a 3-quart sauce pan and turn on low heat. Remove stems and slice remaining strawberries to fold into the filling. Remove the stems and roughly slice half of the strawberries for the cooked filling. The better-looking berries will be sliced and folded into the cooked filling. Since they will be cooked a little, the less-perfect strawberries will “ripen” and become sweeter and more flavorful in that process. Take the strawberries that are not as red and ripe and use those to prepare the filling. If you fill before the crust is cooled, it can become soggy. Let the crust cool completely before filling. Additionally, place a piece of parchment paper or aluminum foil inside the crust and fill with an even layer of pie weights, pennies (washed) or dried beans, this weight will help to keep the bottom crust from bubbling up and the crust shrinking.īake for approximately 30-40 minutes or until the crust is golden brown on the bottom and sides. Chilling the crust completely really helps to keep the crust from shrinking. Once your pie crust is rolled, place into your pie dish and prick with a fork all over the surface.

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In my recent blog, I shared how to roll a pie crust, and we also have a great video on how to make pie dough.

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Scroll down for a printable version of this recipeģ Tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons cornstarchįeel free to purchase a prebaked pie shell, if you like. Let's be honest - who really wants to spend that much time at the stove right now? It's time to go outside and enjoy the start of summer! Strawberry Pie This pie is hands-down the best one I have tasted, and it can be made very quickly. When you balance the sweetness in the pie with some tartness and salt it also brings out the flavor of the strawberry. I think the issue is less about the amount of sugar used but the fact that it isn’t balanced with anything else. I also find most strawberry pies are too sweet. Whole strawberries are clearly striking to look at but really hard to eat and if some of them are not perfect you may end up with a big mouthful of not-so-great strawberry. I have nothing against strawberry gelatin, but why on earth would you use an artificially flavored strawberry product to flavor a beautiful fresh strawberry pie? Using strawberry gelatin doesn’t provide any kind of shortcut that I can see, so I personally recommend skipping it.Īnother beef I have with most strawberry pies are that they leave the strawberries whole.

Most of the recipes I see today are made with strawberry gelatin. It seems to me strawberry pies tend to very pretty but lacking in the taste category, very little strawberry taste and very sweet and gooey. Although I have fond memories of strawberry pie, I have also had a lot of mediocre strawberry pies. Since strawberry season is here, I thought it was time to celebrate with a strawberry pie. Many of those occasions included strawberry pie. They alone harvested the strawberries and shared them only on the most special of occasions. Although my grandparents were generous with all they had, I was forbidden from raiding the strawberry patch. We all shared in each other’s crops! My grandparents who lived next door, Irma and Virgil, were the only ones with a strawberry patch. We grew sweet corn, my grandparents grew green beans, my great grandparents had chickens and even my other grandmother who lived in town grew tomatoes. Until I was seven years old, I lived on a small homestead - my grandparents lived on one side and my great grandparents on the other.

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