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Berry Pies

A pastry crust filled with berries and sugar, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Berry Pies

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick over and wash the berries.

  2. Line a plate with pastry.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill the plate with the berries.

  2. Sprinkle with ½ cup sugar, or more if the berries are very tart.

  3. Cover with a crust.

  4. 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Berries
Provide the main filling and fruity flavour of the pie.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the berries.
Pastry crust
Forms the structure that holds the filling and browns in the oven.

“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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