Anne anderson's ohelo berry pie

Ingredients

Berry Filling:

• 4 cups of Ohelo berries
• 1 cups sugar
• 1/4 cups corn starch
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• few pats of butter

Crust:

• 1 stick of butter
• 1/4 cups shortening
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 5 tablespoons cold water

Preparation

• Use a pastry blender to blend the ingredients...til pea-sized crumbles...add water a little at a time.
• Use the pastry blender (NOT YOUR HAND) to blend it in...til it is coming together in a big clump...don't want is sticky...so don't add too much water. Keep your hands out of the pastry as much as possible..
• Take a sheet of waxed paper...sprinkle it with flour...take about 1/2 the pastry...put on the paper...sprinkle it with flour...then cover it with another piece of waxed paper...roll it out til it is the right thickness.
• Pick it up...peel off one of the wax papers...aim and drop the crust into a 9" pie plate. poke holes in the bottom.
• Peel the other paper off...and voila, you have a pie crust...that you haven't had to patch-work together.
• Pour the berry mix into the bottom crust....put a few pats of butter onto the berries. Roll the top crust in the same way...plop it on...poke holes in the top.
• Bake for 10-15 minutes at 415 degrees...then turn the oven down and bake at 350 for about 40 minutes.
• Let the pie cool for several hours before cutting...if you cut it too soon, it will be a runny mess.

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