Name: Cherry Pie
Ingredients: 1 pie crust; 4 cups ripe cherries; 2 tablespoons sugar; White sugar for serving

Cherry Pie

Ingredients

1 pie crust
4 cups ripe cherries
2 tablespoons sugar
White sugar for serving

Directions

Prepare

Line a pie dish with the pie crust.
Fill the crust with ripe cherries.
Sprinkle the cherries with sugar.

Bake and serve

Cover the pie and bake until golden.
Let it cool and serve with sifted white sugar on top.

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

Pie crust: Forms the shell that holds the filling and browns as the pie bakes.
Cherries: Provide the main filling, moisture and tart fruit flavor.
Sugar: Sweetens the filling and draws out juice from 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.