Excellent Blueberry Pie

There’s nothing fairly like a traditional blueberry pie, and we’ve received some secrets and techniques up our sleeves to make the right slice. Our selfmade crust makes use of a not-so-secret ingredient to create a melt-in-your-mouth crust each time. The juicy blueberry filling is the star of the present, however don’t fear, our methods will ensure that juicy pie doesn’t get soggy. There’s no dashing the method, however belief us—the outcomes are price it. You’ll find yourself with a buttery, candy slice of pie that’s pure heaven in each chunk.

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I imagine practically each event requires pie. Unhealthy day? Pie. Celebrating a vacation? Pie. A random Tuesday? Pie (and tacos as a result of why not?). We’ve taken steps to stop a standard pie-making frustration—soggy crust! Permitting the blueberries to take a seat with sugar for an hour attracts out further liquid, so your pie is completely sliceable and mess-free. Get able to make a bakery-quality blueberry pie! Subsequent factor you recognize, you’ll be profitable a blue ribbon for it!

Ingredient Notes

• Blueberries: Be certain that to make use of recent blueberries for this recipe and never frozen as a result of frozen will include an excessive amount of liquid.
• Butter: Ensure you use salted butter and ensure the butter is actually chilly.
• Shortening: Be certain that your shortening is chilled earlier than mixing.
• Water: Use ice-cold or chilled water.
• Vodka: Use chilled vodka because it retains your dough flaky and simpler to re-roll as wanted.
• All-Goal Flour: Use both all-purpose or pastry flour. Bread flour may also work.
• Unsalted Butter: Maintain this butter chilly for a flaky crust! Slice it into small cubes to make incorporating simpler.
• Vegetable Shortening: Additionally must be chilly.
• Ice Water: Chilly water is essential right here to stop the fat from melting too quickly.
• Vodka: The “secret ingredient” that helps hold the crust tender! The alcohol prevents gluten growth, so the crust stays tender and flaky. Don’t fear; the alcohol evaporates throughout baking.
• Contemporary Blueberries: Contemporary is finest for the juiciest filling. If utilizing frozen blueberries, don’t thaw them earlier than including to the sugar, however improve the cornstarch by 1 tablespoon to offset the additional moisture.
• Cornstarch: That is what thickens the filling so don’t depart it out!
• Lemon Juice: Including this to berries helps deliver out a brighter taste within the berries. You received’t discover it’s there, but it surely makes an enormous distinction.
• Egg White: Separate the yolk and calmly beat the white with a fork or a whisk.

Vodka: The Secret Ingredient

Vodka is utilized in pie crust because it doesn’t contribute to the formation of gluten. This creates a pie dough that’s straightforward to roll out and re-roll if wanted and nonetheless seems completely mushy and flaky. The alcohol shortly burns off throughout the baking course of so there is no such thing as a alcohol taste and it’s completely protected for teenagers to eat. Equal elements vodka to chilled water create the most effective outcome. In case you nonetheless don’t need to use vodka, merely substitute it with an equal quantity of extra ice water.

Chilled Components Work Greatest

Chilled components have a number of advantages to creating the right flaky pie crust. For starters, chilling permits moisture to unfold extra evenly all through the dough, making it smoother. It additionally retains bits of butter from being absorbed by the flour making extra flaky layers and permits the gluten strands to quiet down making your dough simpler to roll after it’s chilled.

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