{"id":8204,"date":"2015-07-03T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T23:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=8204"},"modified":"2016-07-22T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:26:08","slug":"july-4th-blueberry-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=8204","title":{"rendered":"July 4th Blueberry Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the title said July 4th ,of course you don&#8217;t need to wait til July 4th celebration to make this yummy pie dish !! You can do it anytime , but i would suggest summer would be the best time , because of you want to do it when blueberry is in its peak . Sweet , juicy , reasonable price blueberry from you pick or from the store !<\/p>\n<p>The other day i stopped at grocery store after the gym , and i picked up some fruits when i saw 99 cents a pint of blueberry . To me that&#8217;s a great price and hard to pass up . Immediately i think about .. Blueberry Pie ! And beside .. July 4th is this weekend .. so of course i have an excuse to bake a home made pie !!<\/p>\n<p>To be honest , it has been a while since i baked pie from scratch , the last time was during thanksgiving , i baked pecan pie , so i do miss doing all this yummy things in the kitchen . I have been occupied with coloring yarns , and if you knew me well enough , you should know .. before a knitter and a dyer , i was a foodie at first .<\/p>\n<p>So there i was that afternoon getting myself ready to whip up pate brisee , or simply .. A PIE DOUGH \ud83d\ude42 Except i found out that i only had 1 stick of butter .. while i needed 2 sticks , luckily i had 1 pound of frozen butter .. so had to wait til it&#8217;s chilled but not frozen .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1723.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1723-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1723\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1723-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1723-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1723-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pie dough is not hard to make , esp , i used food processor , call me cheater , but that food processor makes the job a lot quicker , easier and less mess !! So here is the dough recipe ..( if you&#8217;re short on time , or just too lazy for pie crust , just buy from the store .. it makes the job a lot quicker !! and skip this step ! )<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 1\/2 cups of all purpose flour\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 tbsp. of sugar\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 tsp of salt , unless you&#8217;re using salted butter , if you do salted butter , you can skip this<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 sticks of cold butter , unsalted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>about 1\/4 to 1\/2 cup of ice cold water\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If you do have food processor , this is the time to use it . Just dump the flour , sugar and salt in it , then pulse few times to combine , cut up your butter into small chunks , add into the flour mixture , pulse until the mixture combine , coarse like pea size clumps , then while it&#8217;s running , drizzle the water start with just 1\/4 cup only , and pulse until it comes together , if it&#8217;s too dry still add little more ice cold water , try not to pour all at once , you don&#8217;t want them to be too wet , enough so that it comes together . Don&#8217;t pulse it too long , or your crust will be hard .\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dump the mixture on a plastic wrap , divide into 2 balls , flatten into disks and place it in the fridge , chill about an hour at least . You can do this ahead of time , a day will be fine too .<\/p>\n<p>If you do not want to go through this home made pie crust , you can simply run to the store and buy ready made pie crust .. but then again .. what&#8217;s fun about that ? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Once the dough is totally chilled , you&#8217;re ready to make pie !!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1729.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8271\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1729-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1729\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1729-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1729-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1729-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will need flour , so the dough won&#8217;t stick to the surface when you roll it out .. you need rolling pin obviously .. here&#8217;s picture step by step .<\/p>\n<p>1. Roll out your pie dough , about 10-12 inch diameter . To fit 9 inch pie plate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"pie1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Transfer pie dough into the plate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8206\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"pie2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Now you&#8217;re going to add the filling :<\/p>\n<p><strong>7 cups of fresh blueberry , washed and picked<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1\/2 cup of sugar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3\/4 cup of cornflour , esp when it&#8217;s very juicy blueberry\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1\/4 tsp. of cinnamon\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>juice from 1 lemon\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Mix all these ingredients gently you don&#8217;t want the berries to burst . Then place the berries into the pie plate . Piling up in the center\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8207\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"pie3\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4. Now , roll out the 2nd pie dough , and using knife , or decorative cutter , cut an even number , i did 12 i think or maybe 10 . You can skip this step if you don&#8217;t want lattice top , just roll out the dough and place it on top and make slits here and there . This is for lattice topping<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"pie4\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie4.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8209\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie5-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"pie5\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie5.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5. Once you&#8217;re ready to bake it , brush it with egg yolk wash , sprinkle generously with sugar and bake at 400 F for 20 minutes then lower it down to 350 F for about 55 &#8211; 60 minutes . The berries should be bubbly . To make sure cleaning up is not a messy job , line a parchment paper on a cookie sheet . Let the pie cool totally before serving . Serve with a huge dollop of vanilla ice cream !<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie6-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"pie6\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie6-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pie6.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is Homemade Blueberry Pie !!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blueberry-pie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blueberry-pie-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"blueberry pie\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blueberry-pie-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blueberry-pie.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favorite to serve this blueberry pie is with scoops of vanilla ice cream<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1745.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1745-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1745\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1745-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1745-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1745-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the title said July 4th ,of course you don&#8217;t need to wait til July 4th celebration to make this yummy pie dish !! You can do it anytime , but i would suggest summer would be the best time , because of you want to do it when blueberry is in its peak . Sweet , juicy , reasonable price blueberry from you pick or from the store ! The other day i stopped at grocery store after the gym , and i picked up some fruits when i saw 99 cents a pint of blueberry . To me that&#8217;s a great price and hard to pass up . Immediately i think about .. Blueberry Pie ! And beside .. July 4th is this weekend .. so of course i have an excuse to bake a home made pie !! To be honest , it has been a while since i baked pie from scratch , the last time was during thanksgiving , i baked pecan pie , so i do miss doing all this yummy things in the kitchen . I have been occupied with coloring yarns , and if you knew me well enough , you should know .. before a knitter and a dyer , i was a foodie at first . So there i was that afternoon getting myself ready to whip up pate brisee , or simply .. A PIE DOUGH \ud83d\ude42 Except i found out that i only had 1 stick of butter .. while i needed 2 sticks , luckily i had 1 pound of frozen butter .. so had to wait til it&#8217;s chilled but not frozen . The pie dough is not hard to make , esp , i used food processor , call me cheater , but that food processor makes the job a lot quicker , easier and less mess !! So here is the dough recipe ..( if you&#8217;re short on time , or just too lazy for pie crust , just buy from the store .. it makes the job a lot quicker !! and skip this step ! ) 2 1\/2 cups of all purpose flour\u00a0 2 tbsp. of sugar\u00a0 1 tsp of salt , unless you&#8217;re using salted butter , if you do salted butter , you can skip this 2 sticks of cold butter , unsalted about 1\/4 to 1\/2 cup of ice cold water\u00a0 If you do have food processor , this is the time to use it . Just dump the flour , sugar and salt in it , then pulse few times to combine , cut up your butter into small chunks , add into the flour mixture , pulse until the mixture combine , coarse like pea size clumps , then while it&#8217;s running , drizzle the water start with just 1\/4 cup only , and pulse until it comes together , if it&#8217;s too dry still add little more ice cold water , try not to pour all at once , you don&#8217;t want them to be too wet , enough so that it comes together . Don&#8217;t pulse it too long , or your crust will be hard .\u00a0 Dump the mixture on a plastic wrap , divide into 2 balls , flatten into disks and place it in the fridge , chill about an hour at least . You can do this ahead of time , a day will be fine too . If you do not want to go through this home made pie crust , you can simply run to the store and buy ready made pie crust .. but then again .. what&#8217;s fun about that ? \ud83d\ude42 Once the dough is totally chilled , you&#8217;re ready to make pie !! You will need flour , so the dough won&#8217;t stick to the surface when you roll it out .. you need rolling pin obviously .. here&#8217;s picture step by step . 1. Roll out your pie dough , about 10-12 inch diameter . To fit 9 inch pie plate 2. Transfer pie dough into the plate 3. Now you&#8217;re going to add the filling : 7 cups of fresh blueberry , washed and picked 1\/2 cup of sugar 3\/4 cup of cornflour , esp when it&#8217;s very juicy blueberry\u00a0 1\/4 tsp. of cinnamon\u00a0 juice from 1 lemon\u00a0 Mix all these ingredients gently you don&#8217;t want the berries to burst . Then place the berries into the pie plate . Piling up in the center\u00a0 &nbsp; 4. Now , roll out the 2nd pie dough , and using knife , or decorative cutter , cut an even number , i did 12 i think or maybe 10 . You can skip this step if you don&#8217;t want lattice top , just roll out the dough and place it on top and make slits here and there . This is for lattice topping 5. Once you&#8217;re ready to bake it , brush it with egg yolk wash , sprinkle generously with sugar and bake at 400 F for 20 minutes then lower it down to 350 F for about 55 &#8211; 60 minutes . The berries should be bubbly . To make sure cleaning up is not a messy job , line a parchment paper on a cookie sheet . Let the pie cool totally before serving . Serve with a huge dollop of vanilla ice cream ! Here is Homemade Blueberry Pie !! My favorite to serve this blueberry pie is with scoops of vanilla ice cream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-food-desserts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8273,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions\/8273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}