I was pre-occupied when Scout and I were walking today. I had promised to bring for desert for supper tomorrow night. I had bragged that pies are my specialty. I had just made one yesterday - the blueberry, strawberry and rhubarb. This finished off the fruit, I had in the house. My dilemna was what to fill the pie with and without driving the hour to Deer Lake to the food store. It just didn't make sense to spend two hours in the car.
As we walked along the trail above the beach, I noticed the cherries were ripe!!! That solved my problem. I can make a cherry pie. While Scout was nosing about the beach and swimming, I climbed on the rocks picking cherries. Luckily I had some unused poo bags in the my pocket. All in all I picked seven cups worth.
The toughest part was pitting the cherries. I had to slit every one open to make sure there were no worms. By the time I was finished pitting them, I knew how to tell if a worm was inside without closing inspecting each cherry.
I overnighted the pitted cherries in the refrig with a little lemon juice and sugar sprinkled across them. Since the cherries are tart, I sprinkled sugar lightly across the bottom of my pie shell. For the filling, I mixed six cups of cherries, 1 cup of sugar, 1/4 cup of corn starch, and 1 tsp of vanilla. I put a lattice lid on top and again sprinkled a little bit of sugar on it. What a beauitful pie!!!
It was the hit for supper and was talked about for days afterwards.
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