Top a juicy cherry and blueberry pie with a pastry crust cut into stars and stripes for a festive 4th of July dessert.
Ingredients
- 5 cups fresh sweet, dark cherries, rinsed and pitted, or frozen pitted cherries (see notes)
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 ½ cups fresh blueberries, rinsed and drained, or frozen blueberries
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ cup cornstarch
- Your favorite berry pie crust pastry
- 1 tablespoon instant tapioca
- 2 teaspoons butter or margarine, cut into small pieces
- Vanilla ice cream (optional)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix cherries with 2 tablespoons lemon juice. In a smaller bowl, mix blueberries with remaining 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Combine sugar and cornstarch; gently stir 1 cup of the mixture into cherries and 1/4 cup into blueberries. Sprinkle about a quarter of the tapioca into the blueberries, the rest into the cherries, gently stir. The instant tapioca will tapioca will thicken things up well.
- Spoon cherry mixture over 3/4 of the pastry in pan, leaving 1 quadrant free. Spoon blueberry mixture into unfilled area. Scatter butter evenly over fruit.
- Top filling with stars and stripes as directed for flag pastry. Set pie in a foil-lined 13- by 17-inch baking pan.
- Bake on the bottom rack of a 400° regular or convection oven until fruit is bubbling in the center and pastry is well browned, about 1 hour. If pastry edges brown too quickly (check after 40 minutes), cover loosely with foil.
- Let pie cool on a rack at least 3 hours; let stand at room temperature up to 8 hours. Cut into wedges and serve with ice cream, if desired.
- Optional- dust with coarse sugar for the elegant frosted look.
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