August 15, 2005

Blueberry and cranberry pie

We were going to this potluck event at the church where my mother goes when she's in town. And so I was going to make something, and my mother was most interested in this blueberry and cranberry deep dish pie.

So I make it. The first attempt, I add too much liquid to the dough. The second attempt, well, it was very hot here, and the dough ended up very thin and it just fell apart as I was putting it into the dish. I patched it up as best I could but it wasn't ideal. And sure enough, the filling leaked.

So I made snickerdoodles instead, which were better potluck food anyways.

The pie is still edible, however. Some slices are very cranberry and some are very blueberry, it seems, despite them getting well mixed and cooked down and all that. So I don't know what's going on there. Although the flavors complement each other well enough, it still seems like you might as well go for a pure blueberry or pure cranberry pie. It was not as spectacular as that apple cranberry pie I made a while back.

Posted by chris at August 15, 2005 10:07 PM