Triple Berry Pie

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We love pie! All of us really love pie and it is one of our favorite desserts. I couldn't tell you what pie exactly is my favorite, though.  I love pumpkin pie so much but I think I love sweet potato pie even more. Pecan pie? Yum! I love creamy pies as well but just not as much as the one mentioned. I also love, love, love fruit pies. This is one of my favorite combinations, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries.
Most often I use frozen berries and It works perfect because they release a lot of juice, which translates into an amazing pie. Last Thanksgiving I made six different pies and pretty much every single one was amazing. I am not doing that this year, I want a laid back Thanksgiving where I am not running crazy around trying to take down some pie record, lol. But a sweet potato pie will happen. Until then, here is this gorgeous and delicious Triple Berry Pie!

Let's first start with the dough. Once I found the perfect one, I've never even bothered trying anything else. This dough recipe is from Dorie Greenspan's Cookbook and it is flaky and flavorful and just divine!

Triple Berry Pie

Pie Crust (by Dorie Greenspan):
 
3 cups of flour
1/4 cup of sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup ice cold water
2 1/2 sticks butter, very cold and cut into cubes
1/3 cup shortening, also very cold
Put flour, salt and sugar into the food processor and pulse a few times. Add the butter and the shortening and pulse until you get pea size pieces of butter and then start adding water, tablespoon at the time. Pulse until just combined. You may not need all the water. The dough just needs to keep together when pinched. The less you mess with it, the better it will be.
Turn the dough out on the clean surface and shape a ball, cut in two pieces, reshape into a ball and wrap into plastic wrap. You need to let it rest in the fridge for an hour.
*I always make this amount and either pre-make two pies and freeze one, or I freeze one half of the dough and use it in the next two weeks for a fresh batch of goodies. This amount makes two 9" pies or one double-crusted pie.
After the dough is rested roll it out on a floured surface to desired thickness. 
The Filling

2 pints of blueberries
1 pint of blackberries
1 pint of raspberries
zest of one lemon
2 Tbsp of lemon juice
1/2 cup of flour
1/4 cup of breadcrumbs
1 1/4 cup (plus one tablespoon for dusting) of crystallized sugar
pinch of ginger

1 egg for egg-wash

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Right before you are ready to take the dough out of the fridge and make your bottom crust, take all of your berries and put them into a bowl. Add the 1 1/4 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of flour, zest and juice of the lemon and a pinch of ginger and mix it well. Let it sit until you roll your bottom crust.
Now put your breadcrumbs on the bottom of the crust and then pour your berry mix on top.
Return the pie to the fridge and start working on the dough for the top crust. I like seeing the oozing of berry juices between the lattice so I do that, but you could just cover it with a whole pie crust and make slits in the dough.

Once you cover the pie with the top, pinch the rims really well and then brush with an egg-wash made from one egg and dust with crystallized sugar. If you have time refrigerate for another 15 to 20 minutes.

Bake on 425 for for 30 minutes and then lower the temperature of the oven to 375 and bake for another hour. I always put the aluminum foil tent around the pie because it tends to brown to quickly on the rims.
Serve on it's own or (please) go crazy and put a scoop of vanilla ice-cream on top of it, it is amazing on this berry pie!

2 thoughts on “Triple Berry Pie”

  1. Jelena Pajic

    Hi!

    Your description mentions breadcrumbs, but its not listed in the ingredients list…? Also, for the top crust, we just take a portion from what is left over after we make the bottom pan crust…? Making pies for the first time 🙂

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  2. Daniela

    Hi Jelena, sorry for such a late response…
    I edited the filling recipe, thank you for pointing it out, I did forget to write how much breadcrumbs to use!
    As for the crust, you cut the dough in two pieces and form disks before you put them to rest in the fridge, one will be for your bottom, the other will be for the top, you can make it a lattice top or just completely covered pie with some slits in it if you want to use the most of your dough. Once again, sorry I didn't see this comment earlier 🙂

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