Since my 85 years have started to catch up with me, I don’t cook as often, particularly experimenting with new recipes that I can share. I do still cook the family holiday meals, though, and every Sunday fix lunch for my two daughters which features a favorite recipe and is followed by 3 hours of various kinds of needlework and chatting. For these lunches, I always make something they especially like from my blogs of over 10 years and I thought it might be fun to share my Sunday desserts each week.
This Sunday’s dessert is a blackberry-apple pie that won a County Fair Best of Show ribbon for me 35 years ago (1983). The pie also won many more contests and became a favorite of the family – except for the ones who don’t like blackberry seeds. See this post from 2008 on the pie contest: https://lillianscupboard.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/the-pie-contest/
In large bowl combine berries, apples, tapioca, 1 cup sugar, and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon. Mix well and allow to set for five minutes. Turn berry mixture in a pastry-lined 9-inch pan. Dot with butter, adjust top crust, cut vents and flute edges. Brush top with milk and lightly sprinkle with sugar/cinnamon mixture. Set pie pan on a larger flat pan to catch spills. Bake @ 375 degrees F for 45-50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. BLACKBERRY-APPLE PIE
Pastry for two-crust 9-inch pie (see link to my favorite recipe below)
3 cups blackberries
1 cup peeled & thinly sliced tart apple
3 Tblsp. quick-cooking tapioca
pinch of salt
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
2 Tblsp. butter
1 Tblsp. milk
1 Tblsp. sugar mixed with 1/8 tsp. cinnamon for topping
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
My favorite pie crust recipe is here in a post from 2007: https://lillianscupboard.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/my-sure-fire-pie-crust/
Also served: Corn-on-the-cob, grilled tilapia and a great salsa using summer produce – Peach-Pineapple-and-Tomato Salsa, found here from 2015: https://lillianscupboard.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/peach-pineapple-and-tomato-salsa/