Cherry Pie
Ingredients
Directions
Assemble
Line a pie dish with the crust.
Fill the crust with ripe cherries.
Sprinkle sugar over the cherries based on their sweetness.
Cover the pie.
Bake and serve
Bake until golden.
Serve cold, topped with sifted white sugar.
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
- Pie crust
- Forms the shell that holds the filling and browns in the oven.
- Ripe cherries
- Provide the fruit filling, its juices, and its tart flavour.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the cherries and helps balance their natural tartness.
“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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