Pies and Pastries

Raspberry Pie Filling

October 5, 2011 Leave a Comment

Delicious, sweet, and flavorful.

4 cups frozen raspberries

1 cup sugar or ½ cup honey

1 tablespoon butter

3 tablespoons cornstarch

Thaw the frozen raspberries. While the berries are thawing, prepare a pie crust. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Put ¼ a cup of the juice from the raspberries into a saucepan. Place the sugar/honey and butter into the saucepan with the juice and bring it to a slow boil on medium/high heat.

Add the cornstarch and whisk it in until very thick. Fold in the raspberries. Cool with a plastic wrap over it.

Pour the cooled mixture into prepared pie crust.

Strawberry Pie Filling

September 30, 2011 Leave a Comment

This pie is delicious and easy. It tastes very good with rhubarb. If you would like a rhubarb pie, add ½ cup chopped rhubarb to the mixture in the saucepan.

One gluten free pie shell (see pie shell recipe)

½ cup sugar

2 tablespoons tapioca starch

1 pound strawberries

Place the pie shell in a pie pan. Set aside. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and position rack in center of oven. Slice strawberries into fourths. Place strawberries, sugar, and tapioca in a medium sized saucepan and cook at medium low, stirring every 30 seconds. Cook until tapioca is invisible, and only a pink frost remains, covering the strawberries. Spoon with a tablespoon into pie shell. Place top crust on top of pie shell. Cut at least 6 1 inch slits in top of pie. Bake for 40 -50 minutes, until top and bottom crusts are lightly browned.

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Apple Pie Filling

September 30, 2011 Leave a Comment

Simple, easy, and flavorful.

4 cups sliced apples

¼ teaspoon cloves

1 teaspoon cinnamon

4 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons cornstarch (cannot be substituted with potato or tapioca starch)

Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl until apples are evenly coated with the mixture. Pour into a gluten-free pie crust and cook at 350 degrees F for about one hour.

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Gluten-Free Pie Crust

April 17, 2009 1 Comment

: Gluten-Free apple pie with Gluten-Free Pie Crust

This crust is used a lot in our family. It is an all-purpose pie crust.

Dry Ingredients

1/2 cup rice flour

1/3 cup potato starch

2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon xanthan gum

1 tablespoon cornstarch

Wet Ingredients

3 tablespoons butter, melted

1 egg, beaten

1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

3 tablespoons butter, cold

Heat the oven to 325 degrees, and position rack in center of oven. Use a glass unbuttered pie pan. Stir the rice flour, potato starch, sugar, xanthan gum, and cornstarch together in a small mixing bowl. Set aside. Place the melted butter in a separate bowl. Crack one egg in another separate bowl, and beat it with a fork. Beat in the apple cider vinegar. Pour the beaten egg and vinegar, into the dry mixture. Stir them in. add the melted butter. Stir. Grate the cold butter into the mix. Flatten the crust out on the pie pan. Pour your choice filling in, and put in the oven for an hour, or until crust is lightly browned.

Note: this pie crust only makes enough dough to put a crust on the bottom. If you want to have one with a top, you may want to double the recipe.

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