@BunsenBurner I’m making the salmon and potato pie tomorrow. Good choice before Tgiving. Sounds like fall comfort food. Will try the vodka crust.
@Hanna - just about no eastern Europeans around to have a market where I am. I made a list of all the possibilities in my phone and slowly crossed them all off. I had high hopes for a big Asian market, thinking of how the Japanese love cherries, but they had pretty much only tropical fruit. Lots of it though - it took me a while to peruse their freezers.
Restaurant Depot had none, but Costco has dried and sweetened Montmorency cherries. I haven’t jumped that shark yet.
^^^I was going to ask if you could use the Costco Triple Cherry blend??? They include tart.
@greenwitch You could jump the shark with Harry and David
I love berries but this time of year, I’d go seasonal if I hadn’t frozen berries from the summer (we have a raspberry patch). Pear and frangipane pie or a pear and fig cobbler might be nice in season options.
I always say “cherry pie for the 4th of July”!
But you could also say, “blueberry pie for the 4th of July”! Even better is to make a red, white, and blue something that uses both.
I saw a Martha Stewart live thing on fb with her assistant Thomas (I think) about making a perfect apple pie. He had an interesting point about how the pie filling tends to collapse and leave a gap between itself and the underside of the top crust. To combat that, he puts the apples in the lower crust carefully, placing them as close together as he can so there is less collapse. He also suggested baking it in the lower (hotter) part of your oven to make sure the bottom crust cooks well enough to not get soggy. Interesting tips!
@greenwitch The pie cookbook I use recommends baking at the bottom rack for the first 20-26 minutes, then lowering the temperature and moving it to the center of the oven for the remainder of the baking time. I haven’t over-baked a single pie using this method.
@BunsenBurner, thanks for the quince source!
I am currently using Barcode Vodka which makes me laugh. (I’d post a link, but apparently the link to the only picture I could find looks suspicious to CC.)
My son used to carry quarter cups of vodka across campus in baggies from friends who drank so he could make pie for them.