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Best Cherry Pie

Teresa Ambra
Best Cherry Pie really is the BEST! This delectable Cherry Pie uses almond extract and tart cherries. Combined with a flaky Homemade Pie Crust, it's one of the best desserts you'll ever eat!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Course Pie/Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 8
Calories 339 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 10-inch pie plate
  • 1 large mixing bowl
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • measuring cups
  • measuring spoons

Ingredients
  

  • 1 to 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar depending on how tart the cherries
  • dash salt
  • 1/3 cup cherry juice
  • 1/4 tsp. red food coloring
  • 6-8 drops almond extract I use about a teaspoon
  • 29 oz. can pitted tart red cherries drained, reserving 1/3 cup cherry juice for recipe (two 14.5-ounce cans)
  • 3 heaping tablespoonfuls UNBLEACHED flour
  • 1 tbsp. unsalted butter slivered
  • 1 recipe plain pastry

Instructions
 

  • Combine sugar, flour & salt.
  • Stir in butter, then cherry juice, food coloring and almond extract.
  • Add cherries and let stand while making pastry.
  • (This helps the flavors absorb more readily).
  • Pour cherry filling into pastry shell.
  • Cover immediately with a lattice top crust.
  • Bake at 300° for about 1 ½ hours until the juice starts bubbling up quite thick between the layers of the lattice crust.
  • If necessary tent pie with foil to prevent browning.

Notes

NOTE: This is much better with tart, red pitted cherries, not dark, sweet cherries.
 
 
NOTE: The pie isn’t done until the juices get really thick. Otherwise, after it cools when you cut into the pie it will be runny.
 
 
NOTE: Avoid placing the filling in the pie before you have the top crust ready to go. Otherwise the juices will cause the bottom crust to get soggy while baking.
 
 
NOTE: Preparation time does not include time required to make a Homemade Pie Crust.
 
 
NOTE: Be sure when draining the cherries to reserve the cherry juice necessary to make the recipe.
 
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Nutrition

Calories: 339kcalCarbohydrates: 69gProtein: 2gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 4mgSodium: 96mgPotassium: 137mgFiber: 1gSugar: 38gVitamin A: 792IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 16mgIron: 2mg
Keyword cherries, cherry dessert, dessert, pie
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