If necessary, cover edges with aluminum foil during the last 15 minutes to prevent over-browning. Bake 45 minutes or until crust browns and filling begins to bubble. Gently stir in cherries and optional ingredients. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until thickened. In a saucepan, stir the cherry juice into the combined mixture of the cornstarch and sugar. Drain the cherries and reserve the juice from only one can. Cool on wire rack (at least two hours!) before serving.Ģ cans Oregon Red Tart Pie Cherries, drained, reserve juice from one canġ/4 teaspoon red food coloring (optional)ġ/4 teaspoon almond extract (I add at least a half teaspoon of vanilla, too!) Remove foil and bake for about 30 minutes more. Place pie on a lined baking sheet as it WILL bubble all over! Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. Sprinkle the crumb topping over the cherry filling. Then stir in the ½ cup of sliced almonds (don’t process after that!). Add the butter and pulse until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add the flour, brown sugar and salt, and pulse until blended. In a food processor, grind ¼ cup of almonds. Remove from heat and stir in the remaining ¾ cup sugar, butter and extracts, then the cherries.
Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened and bubbly. In a saucepan, combine ¾ cup sugar, the cornstarch, and a dash of salt.
Chill in the fridge while you make the filling.ĭrain the cherries and reserve one cup of the liquid (no more!). Prepare pastry and line a 9-inch pie plate. I think you'll really like it, too.Ģ cans pitted tart red cherries – water pack (or 4 cups) She declared it the best she'd ever had, and that is high praise, considering the source. It's a religious experience." I think it's only right to tell you that you can buy their pies online, but for a pretty penny (about twenty bucks without shipping)! So when I saw that pie I thought, I could make something like that! So here is the recipe that I adapted and prepared for June's last birthday (that ended in a big -0!). I have used the recipe on the back of the Oregon pie cherry label with great success, but one day, I saw a show on the Food Network about a bakery in Michigan that Mario Batali raves about, and I quote him, "I don’t think I've ever had as good a pie as Grand Traverse Pie Company's Cherry Crumb Pie. Poor June!īecause her tale is so tragic, I have taken to baking her her own special cherry pie when the occasion warrants. As is always the way, her family never shows as much interest in their requested pies as they do in her coveted cherry pie, and her devious plan is always thwarted! So she has taken to baking two cherry pies at each major holiday, but they are devoured just as quickly, or perhaps doubly so. Doesn't that sound extraordinarily kind and generous? But NO, it is a thinly-veiled deception! You see, she makes everyone else a pie, so that she may make herself her beloved cherry pie and be able to consume it all- without sharing! How's that for holiday spirit? Lust, greed, avarice, gluttony, I've said, and I'll say them again! Of course, all villians get their come-uppance at the end of a good story, and June's is no exception. Moreover, in a show of great devotion and attentiveness to her family's desires, she offers to bake each person his or her own favorite pie, whatever it might be.
In fact, she wowed her family a couple of years ago with a sublime Rachael Ray creation that I have since added to my own harvest-time repertoire, Pumpkin Soup with Chili Cran-Apple Relish (ok, fine, I'll post the recipe for that, too!). But when it comes to cherry pie, she loses all rationality, and her many virtues quickly yield to such vices as lust, greed, avarice and dare I add, gluttony? (I know, 'tis unsavory to mention that particular sin on a food blog! Tsk, tsk!) Do you doubt me? Listen to this anecdote and then judge.Īround the holidays, say at Thanksgiving or Christmas, June becomes quite prolific in the kitchen. Indeed, she is a psychology professor and an expert on the brain itself. Now, by all outward appearances, June is the most reasonable of persons. And I promised to tell the tale and follow through with the recipe, so I mean to make good on my promise (redemption seems a worthy aim during the Lenten season). In my last post, I referenced both my friend, June, and an amazing cherry pie.
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