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Berry Pies

A pastry-lined plate filled with berries and sugar, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Berry Pies

Ingredients

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

  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 another layer of pastry.

  4. Bake at 400°F (200°C) until golden.

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

Berries
Provide the main filling, adding moisture, flavour and tartness to the pie.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and balances the tartness of the berries.
Pastry
Forms the structure that encloses 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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