Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, classic cherry pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Classic Cherry Pie is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Classic Cherry Pie is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook classic cherry pie using 15 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Cherry Pie:
- Get pie crust
- Get 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 2 tablespoon sugar
- Make ready 170 g unsalted butter, chilled
- Prepare 113 g crisco, chilled
- Get 8 tablespoon ice water
- Take cherries fillings
- Prepare 900 g fresh cherry, pitted
- Get 200 g caster sugar
- Prepare 30 g cornflour
- Get 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- Make ready 1 teaspoon vanila extract
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- Make ready 1 large egg, beaten with 1 tablespoon milk
Steps to make Classic Cherry Pie:
- For Pie Crust: Mix the flour, salt, and sugar in a food processor.
- Cut butter into smaller pieces and add to food processor. Pulse a few times. Crisco into smaller pieces and add to food processor.
- Pulse a few more times, until butter and Crisco are the size of peas or smaller. Transfer to a large bowl.
- Sprinkle 3-4 tablespoons of ice water over the dough mixture at a time, mixing and pressing with a sturdy rubber spatula until the dough comes together.
- Divide into two and wrap each half in plastic wrap. Refrigerate until ready to use.
- For Cherrie fillings: Place the cherries, sugar, cornflour, lemon juice, vanilla, and almond extract into a large saucepan over medium heat.
- Stirring often, cook for about 10 - 15 minutes until the cherries start to break down, and the mixture has thickened.
- You want a fairly thick mixture so that it can hold its shape when cutting the pie later. Remove from the heat and allow to cool completely.
- To finish: On a floured surface, roll out one of the discs of dough to a 12-inch circle. Carefully press the dough into an ungreased 9x2-inch pie dish. Spoon the filling into the crust.
- Roll out the other disc of dough to a 12-inch and carefully put on top of the filling. Cut off any excess dough, and seal the strips into the bottom crust.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes before baking, and preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
- Brush the pastry with the egg wash, and sprinkle with sugar. Place the pie onto a baking tray, and bake for 35 - 40 minutes until the crust is golden brown.
- Allow the pie to cool completely at room temperature before slicing and serving.
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