PEACH BLACKBERRY PIE

                                 "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