Blueberry Grunt

Courtesy of Cathy Velte



Ingredients

Filling:
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3 cups California Giant Blueberries
1/3 cup sugar
¼ tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp cloves
¼ cup molasses
2 tablespoons lemon juice

Crust:

1 cup flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
3 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon shortening
1 egg
1/3 cup milk or heavy cream

Preparation

Toss filling ingredients in a large bowl and place in pie dish.

Sift the dry ingredients and add the wet. Spoon on top of the blueberries in the pie dish and bake at 425° for 20 minutes.

Raspberry Pie

Courtesy of Maggie Tomei

Okay all you pie lovers....this is a really great pie.
Raspberry Pie
6C fresh raspberries drained. Trader Joes has fresh frozen organic raspberries)
1C sugar
3 Tbsp cornstarch
1/2 C. Water
Whipped Cream
Prepare pastry for a 9" pie pan and bake making sure to weight the crust. In a small bowl crush enough raspberries to make 1 C. Combine cornstarch and sugar in a medium bowl then add the remainder of the raspberries and water. Cook the mixture until it boils and thickens, stirring constantly. Let cool. Spoon crushed raspberries into pie shell then pour cooked raspberries into pie shell over that. Serve topped with whipped cream.

Berry Galette

Berry Gallette - this is so easy and so delicious! A great dessert

1 pie crust - I use frozen since I'm not much of a baker lol - however if you have a good homemade pie crust recipe, by all means use it :)

3 cups berries of your choice - frozen is OK if fresh are not available
1/4 C sugar
1 T butter, quartered
1 egg, whisked

Thaw the frozen pie crust slightly - just until you can work with it. Place the berries in the middle of the flattened pie crust. Top with the butter cubes. Fold the sides of the dough over the berries. Most of the berries will remain uncovered. Sprinkle with the sugar. Brush the dough with the egg wash.
Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 375 until the dough is gold and flaky.
Great as is, or top with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream or honey.

This is a recipe you can get creative with - you could also use apples, peaches, etc for the filling...