Blackberry Pie

This recipe sounded so good I thought I'd share it.

BLACKBERRY PIE

Ingredients:4 cups blackberries
1 cup sugar
¼ cup flour
1 ½ tbsp lemon juice
1 pastry crust
Cooking Instructions:Sprinkle sugar, flour, and lemon juice over
berries. Let stand 15 to 20 minutes. Line pie plate with pastry and
*** bottom with a fork. Add fruit mixture and dot with butter. Top
with lattice design if desired. Bake at 450 F for 10 minutes; then
reduce heat to 350 F and bake an additional 35 to 40 minutes.

That sounds nice I have some blackberries in the freezer which I picked from our garden last year, so might just give it ago. I like to try new recipes 

This sounds like the recipe I have been making for over 50 years.  The only thing different, is I did not add lemon juice.  Maybe, I need to give that a try.

 

  I grew up on a farm where we had blackberries growing wild, and picked every summer. (Then itched like crazy from all the chigger bites.)  I learned how to make the pies and cobblers from watching my mom and grandma make them.  Usually, I made a big pie in a 9x13 pan and called it a cobbler, even though it had two crusts.  My family liked the extra crust, and always wanted the corners.  It had a good flavor mixed in with the juice from the berries.  I also made my peach cobblers with two crusts.  It's hard to find a recipe for a cobbler that has two crusts.

 

When I was growing up, my family did not have a freezer, except the small one in the refrigerator, so mom always canned the extra blackberries that we picked.  They were good in the winter months.  She cooked them with dumplings in them, and it was so good.  Talking about my mom is bringing back so many memories, of all the good foods she cooked for us.  I always thought of us as being poor back then, but now I think back, and feel like we were rich in many ways, maybe not in prossesions, but Love.  I wish I had the opportunity to tell her once again, how much I appreciated all the things she did for me and the family, while we were growing up.

 

Margaret

 

 

mapanda:

Talking about my mom is bringing back so many memories, of all the good foods she cooked for us.  I always thought of us as being poor back then, but now I think back, and feel like we were rich in many ways, maybe not in prossesions, but Love.  I wish I had the opportunity to tell her once again, how much I appreciated all the things she did for me and the family, while we were growing up.

 

This post sure took me back. We had a big blackberry patch which we called "tame" berries because Mama had ordered the vines from a nursery. The berries would be the size of large marbles. Mama canned them and we ate a lot of blackberry pies. We also had peaches, pears, grapes, scuppernongs, and figs. Mama always canned and put up things from the garden and I have fond memories (probably hated it at the time) of shucking corn with the flies eating us up, skinning tomatoes and peaches, peeling pears and so forth. I'm sure we kids didn't do all that much work but it seemed like it when we'd rather be playing. I remember one year my Dad planted a huge turnip patch and we ate turnip greens every day. We were glad when summer was over and thought, no more turnip greens. That happy thought turned sour when we learned he had raked up the turnips in a big mound and announced that they would be good all winter.

Try adding some cinnamon to your recipe, it makes blackberry pie wonderful.  I just sprinkle some in, so I can't tell you how much.  Apple and blackberry combination is also something special.

I heard about the apple, blackberry version of this pie recently, from my older DB, 72 years old, 3 years older than me.  He does most of the cooking for himself and his wife.  I'm going to try that version one of these days.