Name: Cherry Pie
Ingredients: 2 cups cherries, pitted; ½ cup sugar; 2 tablespoons water; Pie crust

Cherry Pie

Ingredients

2 cups cherries, pitted
½ cup sugar
2 tablespoons water
Pie crust

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
Combine the pitted cherries, sugar, and water in a saucepan.
Stew for a short time until the cherries soften.

Assemble and bake

Place the cherry mixture into the pie crust.
Cover with another layer of pie crust or lattice, and bake in the preheated oven 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Cherries: Provide the main fruit flavor and bulk of the filling.
Sugar: Sweetens the filling and balances the tartness of the cherries.
Pie crust: Forms the container and structure that holds the filling while baking.

“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.