Description
I’ve been racking my brain to come up with the perfect recipe for 4th of July and I think I found it…. Blueberry Pie!
Ingredients
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- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup butter-flavored shortening
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup ice water
- 4 cups blueberries
- 1 Tbsp. lemon juice (1/2 lemon)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 Tbsp. cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp. lemon zest
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- To make dough, combine flour, shortening, salt and water in a large mixing bowl.
- Mix with your hands until all ingredients are well combined.
- Pat dough into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap.
- Place in refrigerator for the time it takes to make filling. (30-60 min.)
- In a large bowl combine blueberries, lemon juice, sugar, cornstarch, lemon zest, salt and cinnamon.
- Toss to evenly distribute ingredients.
- Remove dough from the refrigerator and cut in half.
- Roll out each half to use as the bottom and top crusts.
- Place first dough in pie plate.
- Fill with blueberry mixture.
- Cut remaining dough into stars to use as top crust.
- Place stars on top.
- Bake for 50-60 minutes.
- Remove when golden.
- Let cool before sharing.
