Cherry Pie

[lgllady]

I'm looking for a good recipe for cherry pie using fresh cherries. Anyone can make a pie with canned cherries, I'm going to try to do one with fresh cherries.

Sorry, ma'am. One thing I DON'T do is desserts. Time consuming, messy, and not as good as Marie Calendar's.

[lgllady]

Sorry, ma'am. One thing I DON'T do is desserts. Time consuming, messy, and not as good as Marie Calendar's.


Normally I can make some really stupendous desserts but fresh cherry pie has always eluded me. My apple pie would probably send a sane man into orbit. I've got crust down to a science (Marie Callendar's should live so long).

[BrandonL]

http://foodtv.com/foodtv/recipe/0,6255,20404,00.html

Take a look at that one-dunno how it is-but, it does say fresh or canned, so you could perhaps (if you have a good one you use now), just see the same proportions, and substitute fresh cherries.

Hope you have a cherry pit tool :)

[jeny]

Sorry, ma'am. One thing I DON'T do is desserts. Time consuming, messy, and not as good as Marie Calendar's.


Normally I can make some really stupendous desserts but fresh cherry pie has always eluded me. My apple pie would probably send a sane man into orbit. I've got crust down to a science (Marie Callendar's should live so long).


My pie fillings are great. But crusts elude me. Care to share?

[Lazarus]

I am always available to pop a cherry. ;)

[BoomerVet]

Place two cups bing cherries, halved & pitted, into 1 cup of very nice brandy or cognac along with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, 1/4 tsp. allspice and one tablespoon of lemon juice (or two wedges fresh lemon). Allow fruit to marinate overnight in refridgerator.

Take fruit mixture from fridge, drain brandy retaining 1/2 cup of mixture and place on low-heat burner and allow mixture to steap for about 15 minutes. Add 1-1/2 cups sugar (or sweeten to taste), 1/2 to 1 tsp cornstarch and bring mixture just to a boil, remove from heat immediately and allow to stand to cool.

Proceed with your regular cherry pie recipe.

Enjoy with French Silk Vanilla ice cream and a capuccino.

[Satan]

Well badnews, I guess you'll have to resign yourself to the fact that this thread is DETERMINED to be about FOOD.

I know what it is. You're just predjudiced against desserts. Ohh, LORD, won't SOMEBODY think of the cookies?

VIVE LE BON-BONS!

[Lazarus]

Yep, I love eating out, and there's nothing better than eating out and having a nice cherry pie--for dessert.

Yummy. :)

[lgllady]

Sorry, ma'am. One thing I DON'T do is desserts. Time consuming, messy, and not as good as Marie Calendar's.


Normally I can make some really stupendous desserts but fresh cherry pie has always eluded me. My apple pie would probably send a sane man into orbit. I've got crust down to a science (Marie Callendar's should live so long).


My pie fillings are great. But crusts elude me. Care to share?


Before you mix anything, take the flour and butter (use butter) and bowls and put it in the freezer for a couple of hours. Cut in the butter to the flour until it looks like peas. When you mix in the water, make sure it is very cold, put some ice cubes in it if need be.

Handle the dough as little as possible. Be quick about rolling it out and setting it in the pie tin. If the ingredients are very very cold, and handled little you will end up with the lightest and flakiest pie crust that you ever saw. It will absolutely melt in your mouth.