Blueberry Pie
A Delicious Way to Get Your Antioxidants!
Pie Crust
- 21/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp. sugar
- 1 tsp. salt
- 14 tbs. unsalted butter, chilled and cubed
- 6-8 tbsp. ice water
1. Sift flour, sugar & salt in mixing bowl.
2. Add chilled butter and, working quickly with fingertips or pastry blender, rub or cut butter into dry ingredients until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
3. Sprinkle in ice water a tablespoon at a time, and toss with fork until dough just begins to come together.
5. Turn dough out onto your work surface and gently gather the dough into a ball. Divide the dough in half and flatten each half into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1-2 hours.
Blueberry Filling
- 5 cups fresh blueberries
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tbsp. cornstarch or 1/4 cup flour
- 1 tbsp. lemon juice
1. Gently mix all ingredients together.
Assembling the Pie!
1. Prepare the crust. Roll out half of the dough to 1/8-inch-thick circle on a lightly floured work surface, about 13 inches in diameter. Fit the dough over a 9-inch pie pan, and trim the edges to a 1/2 inch over the edge all around the pan. Chill for about 30 minutes.
2. Transfer blueberry mixture into the chilled bottom crust.(Dot blueberries with 2 tbsp. butter cut into small pieces :)
3. Roll out top crust, slide over blueberries and tuck the overhang under the bottom crust edge to seal.
4. Cut a few slices into top crust to let out steam, sprinkle with 1 tbsp. sugar and bake for 20 minutes at 425*F, then turn down oven to 350*F and bake an additional 30-40 min.
Serve with ice cream? Oh, yes!
Blueberry Pie
8/6/09
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* 4 Live Lobsters
(about 1 1/2lbs each)
* 2 -3 tbs. salt
* 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter - melted
* Lemon
1. Fill a large pot 1/2 full of water, add salt & bring to a rolling boil.
2. Plunge lobsters into pot & replace lid.
3. Reduce heat to medium and cook lobsters 12 - 18 minutes (the longer time is for hard shell lobsters). The shells will be bright red!
4. Lift lobsters out of pot using tongs and drain in colander before serving with melted butter and lemon wedges!
Coconut Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
12/7/08
The Cary Family Coconut Oatmeal Cookies
from The Old Granite Inn, Rockland, Maine
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups flaked coconut
1 cup oatmeal
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream butter, sugar and brown sugar until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat in flour, baking powder and salt. Fold in coconut and oatmeal. Drop by spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until cookies begin to brown. Cool one minute and then carefully remove from cookie sheet.