Sour Cherry Sour Cream Crostata Pie Food

PERFECT SOUR CHERRY PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Press the bottom pie crusts into 2 pie pans.
• Combine cherries, 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar, and cornstarch in a saucepan. Let sit until sugar begins to draw out the cherries' juices, about 10 minutes. Bring to boil, stirring constantly. Lower the heat; simmer until the juices thicken and become translucent, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in butter and almond extract until well mixed. Pour into the bottom half of the pie shells. Cover with top crusts, crimp the edges to seal, and cut vents into the top with a sharp knife.
• Bake in the preheated oven until crust is golden brown, 45 to 55 minutes.

SOUR CREAM CHERRY PIE

Steps:

• Arrange cherries evenly in the pastry shell. Dot with butter. In a large bowl, combine 1-3/4 cups sugar, flour and salt. Stir in the eggs, sour cream and lemon juice. Spread evenly over cherries. Sprinkle with remaining sugar. , Bake at 400° for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°; bake 30 minutes longer or until topping is set. Cool for 1 hour on a wire rack. Refrigerate for 3-4 hours before cutting. Refrigerate leftovers.

SOUR CHERRY CROSTATA

Steps:

• Make pastry dough:
• Beat together butter and 1/3 cup sugar with an electric mixer at medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Reserve 1 tablespoon beaten egg, chilled, for egg wash and beat remaining egg into butter mixture, then add vanilla, beating well. Reduce speed to low and mix in flour, salt, and zest until mixture just forms a dough.
• Halve dough and form each half into a 5- to 6-inch disk. Wrap disks in plastic wrap and chill until firm, at least 30 minutes.
• Make filling:
• Heat butter in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over moderate heat until foam subsides, then add fresh or frozen cherries with any juices and sugar and simmer, stirring, until sugar is dissolved. (Cherries will exude juices.) Continue to simmer until cherries are tender but not falling apart, about 8 minutes. Stir together water and cornstarch to form a thick paste, then stir into simmering filling and boil, stirring frequently, 2 minutes. Cool filling quickly by spreading it in a shallow baking pan and chilling until lukewarm, about 15 minutes.
• Assemble and bake crostata:
• Roll out 1 piece of dough (keep remaining piece chilled) between 2 sheets of wax paper into a 12-inch round. Remove top sheet of paper and invert dough into tart pan. Trim overhang to 1/2 inch and fold inward, then press against side of pan to reinforce edge. Chill tart shell. Roll out remaining dough in same manner and remove top sheet of paper, then cut dough into 10 (1-inch-wide) strips and slide dough, still on wax paper, onto a baking sheet. Chill strips until firm, about 5 minutes.
• Put a foil-lined large baking sheet in middle of oven and preheat oven to 375°F.
• Spread filling in chilled tart shell and arrange 5 strips 1 inch apart across filling, pressing ends onto edge of tart shell. Arrange remaining 5 strips 1 inch apart diagonally across first strips to form a lattice with diamond-shaped spaces. Trim edges of all strips flush with edge of pan. Brush lattice top with reserved beaten egg and sprinkle crostata with remaining tablespoon sugar.
• Bake crostata in pan on baking sheet in oven until pastry is golden and filling is bubbling, about 1 hour. (If lattice and edges look too brown after 30 minutes, loosely cover with foil.) Cool crostata completely in pan on a rack, 1 1/2 to 2 hours, to allow juices to thicken.

SUMMERTIME SOUR CHERRY CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375
• Combine the cherries, sugar, and flour into a bowl. Mix well.
• Transfer the berries to a baking dish
• in another bowl, combine the flour, oats, and brown sugar. Mix well.
• Add the butter and with two knives or your fingers, cut in the butter into the oat mixture so that it resembles small marbles.
• Sprinkle this topping over the cherries and bake for 30 - 40 minutes, or until the sides are bubbly and the topping is golden brown.

SOUR CREAM CHERRY PIE

Steps:

• FOr crust: sift together flour, orange zest and salt.
• Using a pastry blender or two knives, cut in the shortening until the mixture looks crumbly, with most of the pieces the size of small peas.
• Sprinkle with some of the water,no more than 1 Tbsp at a time, mixing gently with a fork to incorparate wenough water to form a dough ball- it will just start to stick together.
• Press into a ball.
• Wrap dough and chill for 20-30 minutes.
• Roll out on a floured board to 1/8" thickness.
• Place ungreased pie plate upside down onto the pastry and cut a circle of dough out, leaving at least a 1 inch border.
• Remove pie plate, flip right side up and carefully place pastry into the pie plate.
• Trim and flute the edges decoratively.
• Press the nuts into the bottom of the crust.
• For Filling: In a small bowl, mix pie filling, lemon juice, and orange zest.
• Spoon over the crust.
• Beat eggs, sugar, vanilla, and almond extract until thick and lemony, approximately 10 minutes using an electric mixer.
• Stir in sour cream to the egg mixture, then pour over the cherry layer in the pie plate.
• Bake in a preheated 350 F oven on the lowest rack for 45 minutes, or until crust is brown.
• Let cool on rack, then chill well before serving.

SOUR CHERRY PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 F. Place a large rimmed baking sheet in the oven to preheat.
• Open the cans of cherries and drain them, reserving the juice from one can. You'll need 1/2 cup of liquid.
• Pour the liquid, sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice, and salt into a 2-quart saucepan and set over medium heat. Whisk constantly over the heat until the mixture is boiling and has thickened. This will take a few minutes, so be patient. You'll know the mixture is thickening when globs suddenly appear in the mixture.
• Remove from the heat and whisk in the almond extract and butter until smooth and well blended. Gently fold in the drained cherries with a flexible spatula, then set aside to cool.
• Roll the chilled pastry on a lightly floured surface until it's about 1/8 inch thick. Use it to line a 9-inch metal pie plate, then trim off the excess pastry with a knife. Gently spread the cooled cherry filling in the pastry.
• Wad up the remaining pastry and re-roll it to about 1/8 inch thick. Cut into strips, using a ruler for straight lines. Lay several of the strips horizontally across the top, then weave the remaining strips under and over the other ones to create a lattice top. Cut off the excess pastry, crimp the crust, and brush the pastry with beaten egg. Sprinkle liberally with demerara sugar if desired.
• Bake at 400 F for 20 minutes, then reduce the heat to 375 F and bake for another 20 minutes. The crust should brown beautifully and the filling should bubble gently.
• Remove the pie from the oven and let it cool for 3-4 hours on a wire cooling rack to allow the filling to cool and set. Cutting it too soon will make the filling runny.
• Serve with vanilla ice cream.

CREAMY CHERRY PIE

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 425 degrees. Line a 9-inch pie pan with 1 pie crust dough and crimp the edges.
• Beat the cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, and flour in a large bowl at medium-low speed until soft and creamy. Beat in the egg and almond extract at low speed until combined. Spoon into the dough-lined pie pan and gently top with the cherry pie filling.
• Using holiday cookie cutters, cut-out shapes from the remaining pie crust dough. Gently place over the cherry filling. Lightly brush the cut-outs with the milk and sprinkle with sparkling sugar.
• Bake for 20 minutes. Cover the edges with foil. Continue baking for 25 to 30 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and the filling is set. Cool completely on a wire rack. Store in the refrigerator.

SOUR CHERRY- SOUR CREAM CROSTATA PIE

Steps:

• Work together the flour, cornmeal, butter, sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt with your hands until mostly combined with some small lumps of butter remaining. Stir in 3 tablespoons water with a fork. Press a small handful of dough together, if it looks powdery and does not come together, stir in the additional 1tablespoon of water. Transfer the dough to a sheet of plastic wrap. Using the edge of plastic, fold dough over on itself, pressing until it comes together. Form the dough into a disk, wrapped completely in the plastic and chill for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Roll out the pastry dough on a well-floured surface with a floured rolling pin into a 12-inch round. Place the dough in a 10-inch pie tin. Spread the sour cream evenly over the bottom of the crust. Toss the cherries with the sugar and zest, then spread the fruit evenly over the dough in the tin. Fold the border of dough up and over the edge of the fruit. Bake the crostata until the crust is golden, the filling is bubbling, and the cherries are bubbling and slightly thickened. This will take 45 to 50 minutes.