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Whortleberry Pie

A pie filled with whortleberries and sugar, baked in a pie crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Whortleberry Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Wash and pick over the whortleberries.

  2. Place the berries in a deep pie crust, an inch thick.

  3. Cover the berries thickly with sugar.

  4. Optionally, add a few red currants or lemon juice among the berries.

Bake and serve

  1. Put on the upper crust and bake for 30 minutes at 350°F (175°C).

  2. Sift powdered sugar over the pie before serving.

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

Whortleberries
Provide the main fruit filling, releasing juice that thickens and flavours the pie as it bakes.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and draws juice out of the berries, helping form a syrup.

“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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