An authentic chocolate sponge cake! Use water and espresso powder that has been brewed.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr 5 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 3 hrs 5 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 1 8-inch pie |
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup lard
- ¾ cup cold water, divided
- 4 cups saskatoon berries, or as needed
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 ½ tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon butter, cut into small pieces
Instructions
- Prepare pastry: Whisk flour and salt together in a large bowl; cut in lard with a knife or pastry blender until the mixture resembles peas. Add 1/4 cup cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, tossing with a fork, until mixture is moistened just enough to form a ball when squeezed. Divide dough into two pieces, form each into a ball, and refrigerate until cold, about 1 hour.
- Prepare pie filling: Place berries and 1/2 cup water in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer berries until tender, about 10 minutes.
- Whisk sugar, flour, and cornstarch together in a small bowl. Stir sugar mixture into berries, return to a boil, and cook, stirring constantly, until filling is clear, about 2 minutes; stir in lemon juice. Cool filling to room temperature, about 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
- Roll one ball of pastry out on a lightly floured surface to fit an 8-inch pie plate; line pie plate with crust. Pour berry mixture into pie crust; dot with butter. Roll remaining pastry out for top crust, place over filled pie, and crimp edges tightly together.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes; reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly, about 35 minutes.
- Mixing the pastry dough can also be done in a food processor. Pulse the flour and lard until the mixture resembles small peas, then transfer to a bowl and continue as written.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 367 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 56 g |
| Cholesterol | 16 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 303 mg |
| Sugars | 26 g |
| Fat | 15 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Great recipe!!! The pie was absolutely delicious and the texture was perfect.
For the filling I used 1/3 cup each of light brown sugar, granulated sugar, all purpose flour. Added a dash of pepper, 1/2 tsp salt, scant 1/8 tsp Ginger, couple dashes of Cinnamon, 1 tsp Vanilla extract.
Delicious! I made this for a diabetic using 1/4 cup Stevia and 1/4 cup sugar. Cooking the filling ahead of time was a great idea.
Excellent! Berries are much nicer when slightly softened with cooking.
This year’s juneberry trees were loaded with fat juicy berries. We’ve had pancakes, jam and now this pie. The pie is absolutely wonderful. Certainly could make just the filling and use for ice cream topping. Thank-you for sharing.
this recipe is the winner! absolutely phenomenal. the Juneberry tree started growing in my backyard a few years ago, and after correctly identifying it, I searched for the recipe to take advantage of the abundance of the berries I get every year. my family absolutely loved the this pie. my dad had actually stated that this was the best pie he had ever had in his life. will definitely be making it again. thank you for sharing this recipe.
Well, I’d say this is a winner. We have a serviceberry tree, and I was happy to learn that the berries are edible. We don’t love crusts in my house, so I made this with just the bottom crust, using “No Roll Pie Crust I.” Ifollowed the pie filling instructions closely. Easy. I would give it a 4 and thought it could maybe use some spice… cinnamon? nutmeg? My husband states it is his favorite berry pie he has ever had, so I’ll give it a 5. Went out today to pick the rest of the berries, and will be making this pie again. Thanks shortcutie!
I did not use the pastry just the pie filling part of this recipe. My family loved it. My husband said it was the best Saskatoon berry pie he had ever had.
Mmm Saskatoon pie!!! Increased the amount of water and berries slightly as we like a ‘juicy’ pie! Everyone always raves!
This is such a good pie! We found Saskatoons on a walk, stopped and picked a full bag of them, and went straight home and put them into this pie. Wouldn’t change a thing.