| Level: | Intermediate |
| Total: | 2 hr 30 min |
| Prep: | 20 min |
| Inactive: | 1 hr |
| Cook: | 1 hr 10 min |
| Yield: | 6 to 8 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 (9-inch) pie doughs, homemade or store-bought
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 1 orange, zested
- Pinch salt
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into bits
- 1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries, rinsed and picked over
- 1 1/2 cups fresh blackberries, rinsed and picked over
- 1 cup fresh raspberries, rinsed and picked over
- 1 1/4 cups fresh strawberries, rinsed and sliced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Line 1 pie pan with 1 of the pie doughs, and place in the refrigerator. In a large bowl, stir together the sugar, orange zest, salt, lemon juice, and butter until combined. Gently add the berries to the bowl, and toss a few times until most are coated with the sugar mixture. Pour the berry mixture into the unbaked pie shell. Top with the second pie dough, folding the edges under and crimping together by pinching with the thumb and forefinger of one hand. With a sharp knife, cut a few slits in the center of the top crust. Refrigerate for 20 minutes, or until the dough is firm. Place pie in the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until crust is golden all over. Reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F, and bake for an additional 40 to 50 minutes, or until berry juices bubble at center slits. If crust darkens too quickly, cover it with foil. Let pie cool on a wire rack before serving.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 6 servings |
| Calories | 300 |
| Total Fat | 7 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Carbohydrates | 61 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 6 g |
| Sugar | 52 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Cholesterol | 10 mg |
| Sodium | 65 mg |
Reviews
You can tell by the picture of a slice of pie with this recipe that it has NO thickener! I personally prefer berry pies without a thickener so it doesn’t make the filling too cloying. Love being able to taste the actual flavor of the berries.
Lest for the lack of a thickening agent I found this recipe excellent. Finally, someone that didn’t dump cinnamon into a berry pie making it taste like something other than berries. Why does everyone put cinnamon in EVERYTHING?
It tastes good, but there is no thickner. You need to add about 1/4 cup of corn starch to the mixture before you bake it. Also, put a pan under the pie dish because it leaks a lot of juice. Otherwise, it’s good. If you forget to add a thickner, just drain the extra juice after you cut your first slice.
When I mixed it all insides toghether it smelled and tasted so good.
But when I baked it. It was so runny and it really wasn’t that good.
But when I baked it. It was so runny and it really wasn’t that good.
the taste was great; a rich dark sweetness. if it just weren’t so runny. i’m sure there’s a way to thicken up the filling, i just don’t know how. good luck!
Use 4 tablespoons of tapioca or cornstarch for a berry pie like this. Add with sugar, and do no let the berry filling sit long before adding to crust and putting in oven – no more than 15 minutes. Otherwise too much juice is sucked out of the berries by the sugar and thickener and the filling gets too runny. That is very strange they didn’t list a thickener. That is big error on the part of whomever typed this up. Any pie with raspberries and/or blackberries needs plenty of thickener because these berries are so juicy.
it helps to read the recipe before you try it! this pie has no thickening agent, and needs lots of cornstarch and/or tapioca, or you will have berry soup!
We substituted Splenda for the sugar because my husband is diabetic. In the future, if I do that, I will adjust the margarine because Splenda tends to melt into it rather than creaming with it. Other than that, I would suggest increasing the amounts of the berries to what comes in a store container. This pie was great!
This pie tasted good but was too watery…needs cornstarch or flour…a must.
The Pie was tasty, but very soupy, I was very disappointed. I noted that the recipe didn’t call for a thinkening agent so I added 3 tablespoons of flour, but not even that was enough, Next time I’ll experiment with cornstarch before taking it to a party.