Photo: Cafe Hon's Mixed Berry Pie Recipe
Ingredients
Pie Crust:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chilled shortening
- 1/2 cup cold butter
- 1/2 to 13 cup ice water
Pie Filling:
- 2 cups blueberries, fresh or frozen
- 2 cups raspberries, fresh or frozen
- 1 cup blackberries, fresh or frozen
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tablespoon butter
Directions
For the crust: Process the flour, salt, shortening and butter in a food processor until you get the visual consistency of fine meal.
Place the fine meal into a bowl. With a fork make a hole in the meal. Pour the ice water in the hole and gently mix the water into the fine meal. Continue this process until the fine meal has the consistency of play dough.
Flour your board and rolling pin, and then roll out the dough. Divide the dough in half and roll out dough for a 2 crust 9-inch pie.
For the filling: If using frozen fruit, measure first, then thaw and drain fruit.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine the flour, sugar and cinnamon, stir with fork. Place 1 crust into the pie pan. Spread 1/3 of the sugar mixture on the bottom and add fruit. Top the mixed berries with the rest of the sugar mixture. Wet the edges of the bottom crust by dipping your finger in the ice water and rubbing it around the edge of the crust. Place the top crust on the pie and gently press the top crust to the bottom. Trim with a knife and roll under. Press together with the thumb and forefinger to make a scalloped edge. With the knife, place 8 1/2-inch slits on the top of the pie. Bake for 45 minutes. When checking the doneness of the filling, insert a knife into the center of the pie. If there is little or no resistance, the pie is done.
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By sarah.vile_12154285
Scotia, 72
on January 02, 2013
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I substituted brown sugar and it was great!
By lollobrij_8332276
Campbell, CA
on October 19, 2012
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Tasted great and easy! I altered it after reading other reviews and followed ssnyder7385 and used frozen mixed berry and ready made crust. It needed a little more sweetness after the alteration so I will follow the original 1c sugar ( I used turbinado sugar but add 1/4 c flour . I also used half whole wheat pastry flour and half unbleached flour and it tasted very good with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and whipped cream. Thanks for the recipe, I'll make it again.
By ssnyder7385
West Chester, PA
on September 18, 2012
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This was great!, I altered it after reading the other reviews to just 1/2 of sugar and I added a 1/4 cup extra of flour to balance it because I removed the dry sugar. I used the butter by covering the fruit with the remaining dry ingredient mixture then cutting the butter into pats, and just putting them all over the top before I covered the pie with the top pie crust. I also added Strawberries sliced to my fruit to add some sweetness b/c the black berries and raspberries were very tart.
I cut slits into the top of the pie and baked it for about 55 minutes at 375, not 350 b/c I read how it was very runny, so I wanted to dry up some of the juices, and mine was not runny at all.
Made some homemade whipped cream and topped it with that! My husband said I may have found a new career, so I'm thinking that meant it was a hit!
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