Name: Cherry Pie
Ingredients: 1 pie crust; ripe cherries; sugar (to taste); white sugar (for serving)

Cherry Pie

Ingredients

1 pie crust
ripe cherries
sugar (to taste)
white sugar (for serving)

Directions

Prepare

Line a pie dish with the crust.
Fill the crust with ripe cherries.
Sprinkle sugar over the cherries based on their sweetness.

Bake and serve

Cover the pie and bake until done.
Serve cold with white sugar sifted over the 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

Ripe cherries: Provide the main filling, with their juice softening and moistening the crust as the pie bakes.
Sugar: Adds sweetness, balancing the natural tartness of the cherries.
Pie 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.