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Cherry Pies

A pie filled with cherries and sugar, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Cherry Pies

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Prepare a deep dish for the pie.

  3. Pit and slice the ripe cherries.

Fill and bake

  1. Mix the cherries with the sugar.

  2. Pour the cherry mixture into the prepared pie dish.

  3. Cover with a pie crust and bake until golden brown.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Ripe cherries
Provide the main fruit filling and most of the juice in the pie.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and draws juice out of the cherries.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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