This award winning pie has a lot of components. But hey, with all it’s accolades, what do you expect? Once you read it through, you’ll realize that each component can be made on a separate day to save time, and you can skip certain components if you want to. It’s actually a really basic pie when you come down to it.
Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 cup unbleached AP flour
- 1/2 cup almond meal or almond flour
- 1 tsp kosher or sea salt
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 12 tbsp cold unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup leaf lard or trans-free shortening
- 1/3 cup ice cold vodka
- 1/3 cup ice cold water
- 2 cup blackberries (fresh or frozen)
- 2 tbsp sugar plus 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 x egg yolks
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 1/2 tbsp arrowroot flour or tapioca starch
- 2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
- 5 x eggs
- 1/4 cup milk
- 3/4 cup cream
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 tbsp medium grain cornmeal
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- Zest from three medium lemons (roughly 3 Tbsp of zest)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/3 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
- 1 tbsp arrowroot
- 4 1/2 cup mixed berries
- zest of 1 medium orange (about 1 Tbsp)
Instructions:
- Make the pie curst by putting 1 1/2 cups of AP flour and 1/2 cup of the almond meal into a food processor with the salt, sugar. Pulse a couple of times to blend and then add the butter (sliced into 1/4″ pieces) and the lard or shortening cut into 4 pieces. Process the mixture until dough/paste lump starts to form – about 15 seconds or so. Add the rest of the 1 cup of AP flour to the mixture and pulse a few times to break up the dough. If the dough is still clumped up, open up the processor and break it up a little bit with your fingers or a fork and then pulse a few more times. You want the mixture to look sorta like cottage cheese lumps.
This award winning pie has a lot of components. But hey, with all it’s accolades, what do you expect? Once you read it through, you’ll realize that each component can be made on a separate day to save time, and you can skip certain components if you want to. It’s actually a really basic pie