"We must have pie..." - David Mamet
When I was growing up, pie was the bees knees. My mother used to make blackberry pie, black juice dripping from pastry, sprinkled with crusty sugar, slathered in melting vanilla ice cream. These days it's golden peaches mixed with those blackberries, tasting like summer still.....
I doubled everything to make two pies.....You will need a double crust pie shell, either homemade, or frozen, or whatever you wish. I was lazy and got frozen pie shells. Worked great.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Cut up 8 peaches, 2 cups blackberries and add an apple cut up if you wish.
Add 1/2 cup sugar, 3 large tblsp flour, lemon zest, pinch cinnamon, pinch nutmeg
Mix by hand.
Add extra blackberries if you wish!
Pile into thawed pieshells
Dot with butter.
Beat up an egg.
Stab pastry tops and slash to leave vents
Slather tops with egg.
Sprinkle with coarse sugar
Bake at 450 for about 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350. Bake till brown and bubbly. About 45 minutes .
Cover with foil to stop browning.
"There is a mystery inherent in a pie by virtue of its contents being hidden beneath its crust.."
-Janet Clarkson
Photographs 2020
