Ground Cherry Pie Recipes

Steps:

• Line a 9" pie pan with pastry and set aside.
• Preheat the oven to 400°.
• In a medium bowl, combine the tapioca, sugars, almond extract, nutmeg and salt.
• Sprinkle half the mixture in the bottom of the pastry shell and top with the cherries.
• Sprinkle the remainder of the sugar mixture over the cherries and dot with the butter.
• Top with a lattice designed or other decorative top crust.
• Bake for 10 minutes, then lower the heat for 350° and bake for 45-50 minutes longer, or until the crust is deep golden and the juices in the pie are bubbling in the center.
• Cool before cutting.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
• For the crust: Combine flour and salt in a food processor.
• Slowly add cubes of chilled butter.
• Slowly add ice water until the dough forms a ball.
• Roll out the dough for the pie crust bottom and place in a pie pan.
• There is enough dough to make a lattice or rustic top crust.
• For the filling: Mix cherries, sugar, water, and flour in a bowl.
• Pour into pie pan on top of bottom crust.
• Make lattice or rustic top crust and place on top of filling.
• Bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes. Then lower the oven temperature to 300 degrees and bake for 30 minutes, until the pie filling is set.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Line a pie pan with pastry and fill with ground cherries.
• Beat eggs with salt; add sugar and flour.
• Add milk and vanilla; stir well.
• Pour over cherries and bake for ten minutes, then reduce the temperature to 350F and continue baking for an additional 25 to 30 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• Serve plain or garnished with lightly sweetened whipped cream (also delicious with a meringue topping).

Steps:

• First, make the pastry. Tip the flour, 50g almonds, butter, sugar and ¼ tsp salt into a food processor. Blend until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Beat the egg yolks with 2 tbsp cold water, drizzle over the flour and butter mixture and blend again until the dough starts to clump together. Tip onto a work surface and knead briefly to bring everything together into a smooth dough. Divide into two pieces and shape each lump into a puck shape. Wrap and chill for 30 mins. Will keep, wrapped and chilled, for up to two days.
• Remove the stones from the cherries - either cut them in half and pop out each stone, or use a cherry stoner. Toss the cherries with the jam, sugar and cornflour until there are no floury patches.
• If the pastry has been chilled for longer than 30 mins, bring it out of the fridge 20 mins or so before rolling, as it will be very firm. Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Dust a surface with a little flour, then unwrap one piece of pastry. Carefully roll it out until it's large enough to line the base and sides of a 25cm pie dish, skillet pan or cake tin. The pastry will be very delicate, if any cracks appear when rolling, squash them back together and keep going. Lift the pastry over the rolling pin and into the dish - don't worry if it breaks, just patch it up by pushing it into the corners and up the sides and closing any holes. There should be a little overhang around the edges. Sprinkle the reserved 2 tbsp almonds over the base, then spread the cherries on top to fill the pie in an even layer.
• Roll out the remaining pastry so it's large enough to cover the pie. Brush a little beaten egg white around the pastry edge. Top the pie with the pastry lid as it is (piercing a hole in the centre for the steam to escape), or make a lattice topping. To do this, cut the pastry into strips, however wide you like. Arrange half the strips in one direction over the pie, leaving a few centimetres gap between each. Weave the remaining strips under and over these in the opposite direction, creating a lattice pattern. Squash the pastry together around the edge, then trim the excess with a sharp knife.
• Crimp the edge for a neat finish, or use any pastry scraps to make shapes to run around the edge - we used a piping nozzle to cut small circles. Stick them on with a little more egg wash, then brush the whole pie with a thin layer of egg wash. Sprinkle over a little caster sugar. Bake for 55 mins-1 hr, checking the pie after 40 mins. The edges may brown more quickly than the centre, if this happens, wrap a little kitchen foil around the edge to protect it.
• Remove from the oven and leave to cool for 1 hr. If you cut it too soon, the fruit juice will be very runny and flood the pie. Best served just warm with cream or ice cream.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 C). Make pastry and refrigerate.
• Drain cherries, reserving 1 cup liquid. In a saucepan combine sugar, flour and salt. Stir in cherry liquid and bring to a boil, stirring often. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Mixture will thicken.
• When mixture is thickened, add butter, almond extract, food coloring and cherries. Cover and refrigerate.
• On lightly covered surface, roll out half of the pastry into an 11 inch circle. Put into 9 inch pie dish. Roll other half of pastry into another 11 inch circle. With a knife or pastry wheel, cut eight 1/2 inch strips.
• Pour cooled cherry filling into pie dish. Place pastry strips horizontally, then vertically, across the top of the pie and lightly brush with egg yolk. Bake 30 to 35 minutes, and cool before serving.

Steps:

• *If you find yourself a little short on enough ground cherries to fill the pie shell, you can add a chopped up fresh peach or two. Preheat oven to 425 F. Prepare pie crust if making your own. Wash ground cherries, toss with zest, and place in unbaked pie shell. Mix brown sugar, tablespoon of flour, nutmeg and salt. Sprinkle over cherries. Sprinkle water over top. Mix together 4 tablespoons flour and 4 tablespoons sugar. Cut butter in until crumbly. Top cherry mixture with crumbs. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes, reduce temperature to 375 degrees F and continue to bake for 25 minutes.