Desserts & Candy

Old Fashioned Cherry Pie

Name: Old Fashioned Cherry Pie
Ingredients: 1 c sugar; 3 Tbsp flour; ½ tsp salt; ½ c juice from cherries; 3 c canned, pitted tart cherries; 10 drops red food coloring; 1 Tbsp soft butter; 4 drops almond extract; Pastry for 9" lattice pie

From the kitchen of Mary Ringlein

Cherry pie made with tart canned cherries and almond extract is a distinctly American confection — a pie that Midwestern home bakers perfected in the era before fresh cherries were available year-round. The almond extract is the key: it deepens the cherry flavor in a way that no amount of fresh fruit can replicate. Mary Ringlein's lattice version is American pie in the truest sense.

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Ingredients

1 c sugar
3 Tbsp flour
½ tsp salt
½ c juice from cherries
3 c canned, pitted tart cherries
10 drops red food coloring
1 Tbsp soft butter
4 drops almond extract
Pastry for 9" lattice pie

Instructions

Combine sugar, flour, and salt. Stir in juice. Cook and stir over medium heat until thick. Cook 1 minute longer.
Add drained cherries, butter, almond extract, and food coloring. Let stand.
Make pastry. Line 9" pie plate with pastry and fill.
Top with lattice crust. Flute edges.
Bake at 450° for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350° for 45 minutes more.