Cherry pie is surprisingly as important to world cooking as apple pie. There are legends that people started baking cherry pies after they mastered the recipe for apple pies.
Cherries became one of the most accessible berries for many Europeans
.
Therefore, creating desserts from cherries was easy.
There are many cherry pie recipes in the kitchens of Europe and America. It is prepared, as a rule, for Canada Day and American Independence Day. The fact is that the dates of these holidays coincide with the dates of cherry picking.
There is an assumption that Washington’s day is closely associated with cherry pies, since the president prohibited the cutting of cherry trees.
Let’s prepare cherry pie on our own.
Ingredients for cherry pie:
- cherries – 300 g;
- corn starch – 2 tbsp;
- eggs – 4 pcs;
- salt – a pinch;
- vegetable oil – 80 g;
- sour cream – tbsp;
- condensed milk – 300 g;
- flour – 250 g;
- leavening agent – tsp;
- vanillin – 2 g.
Sprinkles:
- flour – tbsp;
- butter – 15 g;
- sugar – tbsp.
Preparation of cherry pie:
Pour cherries into a pan, sprinkle with starch and stir. Cook cherries in the pan until thickened, stirring constantly. After cooking, place cherries in a bowl and let cool.
Break eggs into a bowl, pour salt, pour vegetable oil and stir. Add
sour
cream and condensed milk to the mixture, beat until smooth.
Sift the flour and baking powder into the mixture in batches, knead the dough
.
Pour vanilla together with the flour and continue kneading a thick dough.
Cover the bottom of the baking dish with parchment and pour ½ of the dough onto the surface.
Pour
the thickened cherries into the dough, create a pattern with a skewer.
Pour the filling with the rest of the dough, distribute in an even layer.
For the sprinkles, mix flour with butter and sugar, rub into crumbs
and sprinkle the top of the pie with these crumbs
.
Bake the cake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
As a result, we have a fragrant and tender cherry pie. This pastry recipe can be combined with fillings from other berries.
