Toss the thickened cherry juice with the pitted cherries.Add the cornstarch slurry to the boiling cherry juice.
Macerate the cherries in sugar for 30 minutes to draw out the juice.Butter – Use cool butter for best crumble texture.Almond Flour/Almond Extract – The pit of a cherry has an almond flavor so cherries and almonds are natural flavor partners.The flavor and texture will be different, but it will work. You can make the crumble topping with all brown sugar or all granulated sugar. Granulated sugar is drier and helps the crumble stay crisp. Molasses in the brown sugar has a lovely flavor and softens the crumb. Brown Sugar/Granulated Sugar – Using a combination of brown sugar and granulated sugar creates a crumble topping that is soft yet crisp.Precooking the starch helps avoid the problem of runny pie filling.
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The juice must come to a full boil to activate the starch.
Corn Starch – Sour cherries give off a lot of juice and the starch is needed to thicken that juice and bind the cherries together into a filling. Reduce the amount of sugar if you use sweet cherries. They need sugar to balance the flavor in the filling. Sugar – Obviously sour cherries are quite tart. If you use sweet cherries reduce the sugar to 8 oz (1 cup) and add the juice of 1 lemon to the filling. Otherwise, you can use sweet cherries in the filling. You can look for frozen, canned or jarred sour cherries in a well stocked grocery store and, of course, you can buy them on-line. But they can be hard to come buy if they don’t grow in your area. Cherries – Fresh sour cherries would always be my first choice for this pie. I love cherry pie that much.īeyond the classic Sour Cherry Pie, I’ve also created recipes for Sour Cherry Almond Hand Pies, Sour Cherry Cobbler, Rustic Sour Cherry Cake and Sour Cherry Preserves and New York Cheesecake with, you guessed it, Sour Cherry Topping. I swear I planted that tree specifically so I could make sour cherry pie. I may have mentioned 1 or 1010223039 times that I have a sour cherry tree in my back yard. You can even use sweet cherries in this pie. If you have access to fresh sour cherries, drop everything and make this pie! If you don’t have access to fresh cherries, go ahead and use frozen or jarred cherries. Did you know that cherries and almonds are natural flavor partners? Chunky brown sugar-almond topping and tangy cherries are a match made in heaven. Cherry Crumb Pie is a crazy-delicious, seasonal treat.
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