Useful tips from experienced housewives
Many people add a little freshly squeezed lemon or orange juice to blueberries. This gives the filling additional taste and aroma. Rum, liqueur and other alcoholic drinks can be used for the same purpose. Cream, sour cream whipped with sugar, or ice cream will help highlight the taste of the blueberry pie. Blueberries are juicy berries, so sometimes the juice may leak out of the pie. To avoid this, starch is added to the filling. Another option is to brush the surface of the dough with egg white, this is done before placing the berries on it. You can also add a small amount of crushed cookies to the filling, which will absorb excess juice.
Easy Blueberry Pie Recipe
Pour 350 g of flour into a large deep bowl, add 2 teaspoons of baking powder and salt on the tip of a knife, add 150 g of finely chopped margarine, mix it all, adding water in small portions as the process progresses. The dough should be stiff and pull away from the sides of the pan. Next, it is divided into two unequal parts, a layer is rolled out from a large piece, which is laid on the bottom of a greased baking dish, a pound of pre-washed and dried blueberries are distributed over the surface, sprinkled with flour, and several small pieces of margarine are placed on top. All this is covered with a second layer, rolled out from a smaller piece of dough. The covered blueberry pie is baked in an oven preheated to medium temperature for about 30 minutes.
Summer Blueberry Open Pie
Keep 50 g of butter at room temperature, when it softens, beat it until fluffy, continuing to beat, add half a glass of powdered sugar, which should completely dissolve. Next, add 2 eggs to the mixture, beat, switching the mixer to the lowest speed, and add a pinch of vanilla at the very end. The resulting mass is divided into 2 equal halves. Separately, add 1.5 teaspoons of baking powder and a little salt to 1.5 cups of flour, transfer all this to half the egg mixture, stir, pour in a glass of milk, grind thoroughly until smooth, then add the second part of the eggs with cream and knead without the dough is too thick. They fill a greased mold with it, and 1.5 cups of processed blueberries are distributed on top in an even layer. Summer pie is baked for about 40 minutes at 200 degrees. Sprinkle the cooled pie with powdered sugar before serving.
American blueberry pie
To make American blueberry pie, you use a mixture of two berries - blueberries and cherries. To prepare the dough, add 15 g of sugar, a pinch of salt, 100 g of softened butter to 180 g of flour, pour in 3 tbsp for the desired consistency. spoons of water. Knead the soft dough, roll it into a ball, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour. Then the dough is rolled out into a round layer, placed in a greased baking dish, and the excess is carefully trimmed from the edges, from which decorations for the pie are made: stars, stripes, circles.
For the filling, pit 5 cups of cherries and sprinkle them with a small amount of lemon juice. Do the same with half a glass of blueberries. In a separate container, add 50 g of corn starch to a glass of sugar, mix, add a glass of the resulting mixture to the cherries, and put the rest into the blueberries.
First, spread the cherry part of the filling over the surface of the dough, then lay out the blueberries, decorate the pie with dough pieces and place it in the oven, preheated to 200 g, where they bake for about 40 minutes, then cover with foil and keep in the oven for about 20 minutes. This pie is served with creamy ice cream.
Cottage cheese pie with blueberries
To prepare blueberry curd pie, combine equal amounts of slightly warmed butter and sugar - 150 g each, add 2 teaspoons of vanillin, grind it all into a homogeneous mass. Beat an egg into it, mix, add 2 teaspoons of baking powder, add enough flour in small portions to get a thick dough. It is rolled out into a layer and placed in a greased form to form sides.
To prepare the filling, separate 4 egg yolks, grind them with sugar, add 600 g of pre-ground cottage cheese, 100 g of starch, mix. Separately, beat the whites with the addition of a pinch of salt, transfer them to the cottage cheese with the yolks, mix - always by hand. The resulting mass is distributed evenly over the surface of the dough.
Next, sprinkle 300 g of blueberries with a tablespoon of sugar and beat thoroughly with a blender. The blueberry filling is placed on top of the cottage cheese and patterns are made using a fork. The pie blank is placed in the oven and baked for about an hour at 180 g. If suddenly the surface begins to burn, cover it with foil. Cool the finished pie and sprinkle with powder before serving.
Cooking instructions
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1. Place a sheet of foil on the bottom of a square baking dish (25x25 cm). The ends of the foil should hang slightly on both sides (about 4-5 cm). Turn on the oven to preheat to 175 degrees. Tool Oven thermometer How the oven actually heats up, even if you set a specific temperature, can only be understood with experience. It is better to have a small thermometer on hand that is placed in the oven or simply hung on the grill. And it is better that it shows degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit simultaneously and accurately - like a Swiss watch. A thermometer is important when you need to strictly observe the temperature regime: for example, in the case of baking.
2. For the top layer of the pie, mix flour (1 cup), brown sugar (one and a half tablespoons), regular granulated sugar (one and a half tablespoons), a pinch of salt and cinnamon. Add chopped butter (60 g) and rub it into the mixture with your hands until you achieve a uniform crumbly consistency. (You can use a blender.) Divide the mixture into two equal parts. Flour seeder tool Flour must be sifted even if you grind it yourself and guarantee the absence of lumps and pellets. Waking up through the sieve, the flour is loosened, saturated with oxygen, the dough rises better and then has a better texture. You can sift using any fine sieve or, for example, a special OXO seeder, which works on the principle of a meditative rocking chair.
3. For the bottom layer of the pie, in one bowl with a spoon, thoroughly mix flour (1 cup), baking powder, soda and salt (half a teaspoon), in another - sour cream and vanilla extract. In a third bowl, beat the butter (65 g) with sugar with a mixer at moderately high speed until the mixture becomes fluffy (about 5 minutes), add the egg and continue beating until smooth. Then combine the contents of all three containers, alternately adding sour cream and egg mixture to the flour and beating with a mixer at low speed.
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4. When the dough is ready, add blueberries to it and mix thoroughly with a spoon or hands so as not to damage the berries too much.
5. Place the blueberry batter into a baking dish and smooth the surface with a spatula. Sprinkle the previously prepared crumbly mixture for the top layer of the pie evenly on top.
6. Place the pie in the oven on the middle shelf and bake for 25 minutes.
7. Remove the pie from the oven, sprinkle with the second part of the crumbly mixture and put it back in the oven. Bake until fully cooked (about 25 minutes).
8. After oven, leave the cake in the pan for 10 minutes. When it has cooled slightly, remove it from the pan by carefully pulling it out by the overhanging ends of the foil.
Cherry-blueberry pie for lovers of American cuisine.
How to make American Pie recipe:
1) Mix flour, salt and sugar in a bowl. Add butter softened at room temperature and water. To stir thoroughly. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for 30-60 minutes.
2) Place the dough on the work surface, first sprinkling it with flour. Roll out the dough into a layer the size of your round baking dish (you need to roll from the center of the dough to the edges). Fold the circle in half, then in half again and carefully place it on the pan so that the pointed part of the circle is in the center of your pan.
3) Carefully cut out the excess dough to fit your shape. Roll out the remaining dough thinly. Cut out several stars, 3 long and 3 short strips from the dough (they will then need to be placed on top of the cherry-blueberry filling). Carefully place the figures on a board (or saucer), cover with cling film and put in the refrigerator. The form with the dough will also need to be put in the refrigerator.
4) In a large bowl, mix cherries with 2 tablespoons. spoons of lemon juice. In a smaller bowl, mix blueberries with remaining 1 tablespoon. spoon of lemon juice.
5) Mix sugar and cornstarch separately. Place 1 cup of the resulting sugar-starch mixture in the cherries, and the rest in the blueberries.
6) Take out the form with the dough. Carefully spoon the cherry mixture 3/4 of the way up the pan. Fill the remaining 1/4 of the pan with the blueberry mixture. Brush the top with melted butter and place the dough pieces in the shape of an American flag.
7) Bake at 200 C for 1 hour. 40 minutes after the pie is in the oven, the crust will need to be covered with foil and put back into the oven. Then let the pie cool for 3-8 hours, cut and serve with ice cream.
Ingredients for the American Pie recipe:
for test: 1 1/4 cups (175 g) flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 tbsp. spoon (14 g) sugar, 110 g butter, 2-4 tbsp. spoons of boiled cold water.
For filling: 5 glasses of fresh pitted cherries, 3 tbsp. tablespoons lemon juice, 1 1/2 cups blueberries, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup cornstarch, 2 teaspoons butter.
Ingredients for the dough:
1.5 cups flour (1 cup in the US is 240 ml),
2 teaspoons cookie powder (1 tsp = 5 ml) - baking powder,
1/4 teaspoon salt,
115-120 g softened butter,
1/2 cup granulated sugar,
1 egg,
1/2 cup milk,
2 cups fresh/frozen blueberries
cookie powder.
Composition of products for crumbly crumbs:
1/4 cup flour,
1/4 cup sugar
cinnamon to taste - so that there is a pleasant brown tint,
20-25 grams of hard butter, cut into pieces.
Preparation of crumbly crumbs (Streussel topping):
Mix flour with sugar and cinnamon, add butter cut into pieces and, using two knives (one knife against the other), chop it into crumbs. (25 g butter, 2 tbsp flour, 2 tbsp sugar, 0.5 tsp cinnamon)
Don’t try to do this with your hands, otherwise the butter will melt and everything will stick together... This crumb is very popular among Americans, they sprinkle it on any pies. American pies ("pie") differ from ours both in form and in content: the bottom and walls of the form are lined with a thin shortbread cake, then this cake is filled with anything - apples, apricots, peaches, plums, cottage cheese filling, and on top of this whole structure sprinkled with crumbly crumbs - and this pie (pie) goes into the oven for 45 minutes.
Preparing the pie:
1. In a large dry bowl, whisk together flour, cookie powder and salt. It is advisable to sift the flour, it will be enriched with oxygen - and the dough will rise better. Take a few spoons of this flour mixture and sprinkle it over the blueberries (rinse and dry them first) in a separate bowl. Turn on the oven to heat to 200 C.
2. In a small bowl, beat the softened butter and sugar until white, beat in the egg, and knead well.
3. Mix the flour mixture with the egg-butter mixture, gradually add milk. At the end of kneading, add the sprinkled blueberries and stir gently. The dough should turn out neither thick nor liquid, with a consistency close to thick sour cream.
4. Grease a mold (preferably square, it looks beautiful) measuring 20 cm x 20 cm with deep edges, put the dough there - it may seem to you that there is very little dough, but don’t worry, it will grow a lot. Sprinkle crumbs on top and place in the oven for 45-50 minutes at 200 C. According to my observations, when the kitchen is filled with an incredible aroma, the pie is ready - or almost ready. Remove from the oven, brew some tea and enjoy! The pie really turns out to be very crumbly, light and not cloying. I believe that such a pie can be made with cherries, raspberries, and currants!
Americans typically serve these baked goods with either ice cream or whipped cream. So you can experiment if your pocket allows it.
Recipe author: Julia Pledger, "Cooking with Love"
There are many different recipes for cooking blueberry pie. Blueberry pies are available open, closed, with or without filling. Sometimes dough in the form of intersecting stripes and flat dough figures are laid on top of the filling. These pies look very impressive. Sometimes the dough is passed through a meat grinder to cover the filling.
We offer you a traditional American recipe closed shortbread pie with blueberries. The dough cooks quickly. It can be stored in the refrigerator for up to three days. Use it as a preparation for other pies - with fruit, protein, egg and other fillings. Instead of eggs, you can add cold water, if you use margarine, you will get lean blueberry pie version.
Blueberry Pie Recipe
Ingredients:
Preparing blueberry pie:
1 Remove the butter from the refrigerator and leave it at room temperature for 10-15 minutes. It should become soft. Cut the butter into small pieces and mix with flour (rub the flour into the butter with your hands or using a fork). Grind the yolks with sugar and vanilla, add to the flour and carefully, without kneading it too much, knead the dough. Wrap the dough in film and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
2 Sort the blueberries, wash and dry. Cover the berries with sugar to taste and let stand for 1.5-2 hours. Drain off the released juice.
3 Divide the dough into two unequal parts. Roll out a layer from the larger one and place it in a prepared pie pan, preferably a round one. The dough is easy to transfer into the mold using a rolling pin. Place berries on the dough. Roll out the second part of the dough, close the pie and carefully seal the edges. Pierce the pie with a match in several places to allow steam to escape. Bake in an oven preheated to 220 degrees until golden brown, 25 minutes. Be sure to cool (preferably in the refrigerator), otherwise it will be difficult to remove the cake from the mold.
1 You can use a mixture of berries - blueberries and black currants, cut in half (see photo).
2 You can use frozen berries.
3 The dough can be kept in the refrigerator for longer. Up to 2 hours or more.
4 Working with stubborn, brittle shortcrust pastry is greatly facilitated by the following method - the dough is rolled out between two sheets of parchment (or a large sheet folded in half). The dough rolled out in this way is easily transferred into the mold. You can also use cling film for these purposes.
5 The taste of blueberries is perfectly complemented by lemon or orange juice (a couple of teaspoons).
6 Berries produce juice when exposed to high temperatures. Despite the fact that we pre-soak the berries in sugar and drain the juice, there may still be enough liquid left in the filling, which will then spread into a puddle around the piece of pie. This can be avoided in various ways. For example, add starch, cookie crumbs or crackers to the filling. Sometimes egg white is used for these purposes - they brush the dough with it before adding the filling.
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