

Fill with cherry filling, including juices. (Can be made ahead and stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a 1 week.)ĪSSEMBLE AND BAKE: Brush egg wash over crimped edge of chilled, prepared pie dough. Chill the crumb 15 minutes before using for pie topping. Add the melted butter and lemon zest and blend with your fingers or a fork until the butter is incorporated and the mixture gathers into small clumps. In a medium bowl, whisk together the ground oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt. PREPARE ALMOND STREUSEL: Use a food processor to grind the oats, pulsing the machine until the they resemble coarse cornmeal. Stir remaining halved cherries, sugar, salt, lemon juice, bourbon, tapioca, and cinnamon into the puree let stand for 15 minutes. Strain puree through a fine-mesh strainer into a large bowl, pressing on solids to extract the liquid discard solids. In a food processor, process plums and 1 cup halved cherries until smooth, about 1 minute, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary. PREPARE CHERRY FILLING: In a coffee grinder (or food processor), grind instant tapioca for 30 seconds and set aside. Position oven racks in the bottom and center positions, and preheat the oven to 425☏. THE BUTTER LAB’S PIE DOUGH (1/2 RECIPE, ROLLED OUT AND CHILLED FOR A SINGLE-CRUST PIE)Ħ cups (about 2 pounds) fresh sweet cherries, halved and pittedĦ tablespoons (85 grams) unsalted butter, melted and cooledġ large egg, lightly beaten with 1 teaspoon water If you’re feeling fancy, you could also add a dash of bitters to the filling and brown the butter in the crumb, but it doesn’t need it. Just make sure to measure them frozen and then let them thaw before using if not, you could end up with uncooked fruit and undissolved tapioca. This is best with fresh cherries, but you can also use frozen ones. The Butter Lab’s Sweet Cherry-Almond Crumb PieĪdapted from Cook’s Illustrated and Magpie (see above).
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The oats and nuts and lemon zest provide added depth and perfectly complement the sweet, boozy summer cherries, plus those two secret plums. (I’ve previously used her brown sugar crumb recipe here.) Note: the picture above shows a different topping-the streusel from Four and Twenty Blackbirds-but nothing compares to the almond crumb, pictured below. This cherry pie recipe is a combination of that same cherry filling, my all-butter pie dough recipe, and my favorite almond crumb recipe from Holly Ricciardi’s Magpie. The addition of bourbon and lemon makes everything taste a little like an old-fashioned cocktail. The plums also cut the sweetness of the cherries and give them a lighter, more delicate flavor. Ground instant tapioca-Cook’s Illustrated’s choice (and mine) for fruit pie thickener-helps give the fruit the ideal pie consistency, not too gummy, runny, or starchy. The chewy skins get thrown away, while the cherry-plum puree gets added to the rest of the halved and pitted cherries, giving everything a kind of head start toward jamminess. Here’s how it goes: The plums, along with some of the cherries, get blitzed in a food processor and passed through a sieve. Their recipe includes two unlikely red plums. Too often-especially in recipes that use pitted, whole cherries-the cherries never fully break down, the filling doesn’t thicken, and the pie just tastes like raw cherries wrapped in pie dough.Ĭook’s Illustrated is my trusted source for fruit pies, and their sweet cherry pie filling is no exception. The cherries need to bake to the perfect consistency-soft and jam-like, with a bit of texture. After about 30 minutes, you may place foil around edges to prevent crust from getting too dark.I’ve baked enough sweet cherry pies to know they can be trickier than you might think. Bake 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes until cherries are bubbling and topping is golden brown.Cut in butter until crumbles are the size of small peas. For topping, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, and almonds.Spoon cherries on top of crumbed almond paste. Sprinkle almond paste over crust bottom in pie plate.For filling, in large bowl, stir together cherry jam, cherries and any remaining juices, flour, sugar, and the cinnamon.Place prepared pie crust in 9-inch glass pie plate. Press the dough evenly into the bottom and sides of the pie plate. Roll dough out to fit a 9-inch pie plate.Flatten slightly into a round disk, wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight. Stir in water, a tablespoon at a time, until mixture forms a ball. Cut in butter with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. In a large bowl, combine flour and salt.

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