Have you shopped for blueberries lately? I made the pie below this week, and there were the biggest blueberries I’ve ever seen in the stores around here. I’ve always loved blueberries. I remember picking blueberries in Paw Paw, Michigan when I was little. (Paw Paw is apparently the heart of grape and wine country in Michigan. And they have good blueberries.)
We like this pie because half of the blueberries are cooked into a syrup, and half of them are added to the baked pie shell in their natural state. This gives the pie a good mix of firm and cooked blueberries – thus the name, Doublegood Blueberry Pie. (Original recipe passed on to us a long time ago from family friend Joan Sundblad.)
Doublegood Blueberry Pie
9″ baked pie shell
3/4 cup sugar
3 Tbl. cornstarch
1/4 tsp. salt
1 Tbl. lemon juice
1/4 cup water
4 cups fresh blueberries
1 Tbl. butter
whipped cream (optional)
Combine sugar, cornstarch, and salt in a pan. Add the water and 2 cups of the blueberries. Cook on medium heat until the syrup turns thick and clear. Remove from the heat and add in the lemon juice and butter. Stir until mixed. Let cool.
Add the remaining 2 cups of fresh blueberries to the baked pie crust. Pour the cooled blueberry mixture over the top. Let cool completely in the refrigerator. Garnish with whipped cream when serving (if desired).
Need some pretty BLUE(berry) yarn to go with your pie?
Why not? We always suggest project bags to match your projects. Why not pie to match your projects? Seems reasonable. Here are my favorite blue(berry) skeins this week:
Top Row, left to right: Dream in Color’s Smooshy with Cashmere Violet’s Blueberry, Hedgehog Sock Ink, Gherkin’s Bucket Long Stride Sock Threadbare
Middle Row, left to right: Wollmeise Twin Chim Chim Chimney, JulieSpins Euro 820 Aegean, Cascade 22o Midnight
Bottom Row, left to right: Into the Whirled Kettled Dyed The Cat’s Pyjamas, The Uncommon Thread Posh Fingering Stonewashed, Black Elephant Dark Side.
And here are a few pattern options that caught my eye (they’re all shown in blue, too):
Yume, Frosty Icy Flowers, Alice, Lake Song, Pretty With Jeans, Blue Moon, Bluebonnet Shawl (crochet), Ginga Top, Raglano, Antarktis, and The Age of Brass and Steam.
Today we have a contest and the winner gets a $25 Loopy credit added to their account!
We’ll do a random drawing next week. To be entered, leave a comment below and answer this question: What is your favorite kind of pie?
Have a great weekend and check back to the blog on Monday for Camp Loopy July news and a Monday Update!
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Pie? That’s a tough one – I totally prefer pie to cake, but a favorite? Probably a good old apple or cherry. Yay pie!
Banana cream….
My mom’s apple pie is a definite favorite, but tollhouse pie comes in a close second!
Strawberry Pie is my favorite… just like my Grandma used to make for me!
strawberry rhubarb followed by peach! but pretty much I will take any pie that comes my way 🙂
My favorite is Key Lime, but only if it’s made with real key lime juice from Florida. Yum!
It is a toss up between lemon meringue and cherry.
Blueberry!
Can I choose 2 kinds of pie? Key lime in the summer, and sweet potato in the cooler months!
Lemon meringue!
That’s easy. Strawberry rhubarb pie FTW!
I eat fresh or frozen blueberries almost every day. Last year I froze over 100 # from the local u-pick farm. As for a favorite pie? I would have to say it is probably any fruit pie that my husband is willing to make!
All pie!!!
French Chocolate Silk Pie!
Lemon meringue, mmmmmmm ………, but I wouldn’t turn down a piece of blueberry pie. We used to pick wild blueberries in northern WI and my grandmother put them in the Swedish egg pancake batter.
Cherry pie
I don’t think I’ve ever met a pie I didn’t like, but my favorite is cherry.
Chocolate cream pie is my favorite.
Pumpkin!!
I think my favorite pie might be this Doublegood blueberry as soon as I make it next weekend!
Definitely not blueberry. Just can’t eat blueberries. My favorite pie is cherry cheese pie like my granny made me for my birthday every year.
My favorite is cherry pie. When I was growing up I asked for a cherry pie every year for my birthday instead of cake. But that double good blueberry pie looks really yummy!
Ooh! Bumbleberry pie is the best! Home made graham cracker crust( add vanilla and cinnamon ) fresh berries—strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries ( plus Marion berries if you can get them!) make a fresh strawberry pie but use the mixed berries instead. Pour a glaze made with mashed strawberries over the fresh berries in the baked graham cracker crust and refrigerate until it sets. Soooo good with vanilla ice cream! Too bad I can’t eat these anymore—even allergic to the gluten free graham crackers, darn it!
Dutch apple with that yummy crumb topping!
My favorite kind of pie is wild blueberry. When I was a kid, we vacationed in the north woods of Wisconsin and would pick wild blueberries with the resort owner. She’d make the bestest blueberry pies! When I saw your post, I immediately thought of those long ago pies. Any good, fruity/wild blueberry pie transports me back to those wonderful times.
Apple. Especially the ones made by my sister-in-law (w/ homemade ice cream)
Hands down favorite is Pecan Pie, but let’s face it, about the only pie I’d be likely to turn down is Humble Pie.
I love banana cream pie. Smooth textured custard with banana chunks and the perfect pie crust, all topped with gorgeous whipped cream. Yummmmmmmmmm
Pie has to be apple or strawberry.
Pecan Pie — my grandmother made the absolute best pecan pie– I just wish I could find her recipe!
Your pie recipe looks so good!
My favorite pie is blueberry served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
I agree with Michele – banana cream pie is great, especially in the summer. But when the fall comes, I get that craving for pumpkin or sweet potato pie with double or triple the spices.
Cherry! As a kid we would always go “up north” to a cottage on Platte Lake in the summers. Nearby was the little town of Beulah and The Cherry Hut, Home of jams, jellies and PIE. They had more than just cherry, but that was my Dad’s and my favorite.
My favorite pie is cherry pie.
How to pick one kind of pie?! I’m a big fan of pie in general, but I think lemon meringue wins out as my #1. But I’m super excited to try the Doublegood Blueberry Pie recipe asi have tons of blueberries to pick from my garden right now!
My grandmother’s rhubarb pie was the best. Lard in the crust, plenty of sugar inside and on top, and served after dinner and then for breakfast the next morning.
Apple pie is my favorite.
Peach pie, fresh with the goodness of summer, no matter what time of year you have it. For extra credit, if there is peach ice cream available (a flavor that seems to be an endangered species), a scoop of that on top makes it all just peachy dandy!
I love pie. My favorite/the most perfect pie is homemade apple made with Harrleson apples (tart and firm), low on sugar, high on cinnamon and a bit of nutmeg. Apples rough cut so you have that mix of cooked and slightly less cooked for good texture. I like it room temp the next day for breakfast with a big ole cup of black coffee. Heaven.
Peach pie in the summer and apple pie in the fall!
I love a key lime pie with a pucker!
Pecan Pie has the best memories for me.
I love peach pie and second to it is cashew chocolate pie.
BlackBerry pluo or strawberry rhubarb, I love a pie with some tart to balance out the sweet!
We do Birthday pie instead of cake in my family. I love almost any fruit pie, especially blackberry or apple.
My mother’s chocolate pie, or pineapple cream. Made from scratch on both. Chocolate was started with a double boiler, eggs were tempered, but it was worth every minute!
Cherry is my favorite. As I was reading through this post, I was thinking if I could make this and substitute fresh tart cherries for the blueberries. And then I get to the end and there is a contest for favorite fruit pie……now I’m going to just have to try it with cherries! I always prefer pie over cake. Growing up, we could choose what we wanted for birthday dessert and mine was always cherry pie!
Peach pie is my favorite with blueberry being the runner up.
Peach pie or pumpkin pie is my tie for favorite. A couple Thanksgivings ago we celebrated up at my sister’s in IL. I have 5 boys, so we had to divide up and the 3 oldest ones slept at my Dad’s house a couple miles away. They must have told him they never eat, because he ended up bringing 12 pies for Thanksgiving dinner! We had pie for dessert, pie for breakfast, pie for lunch, pie for snacks. So many pies! It was fantastic.
Cherry pie by far, but no one else in my family likes it but me. So for the holidays, we have apple and pumpkin. My mom likes blueberry and I’m very tempted to make your recipe for her 🙂
I love all pies but my favorite has got to be blackberry (or marionberry). This was my birthday dessert while I was growing up and it was great since I have never like cakes very much. My other fav has got to be rhubarb custard: yummmmmmm!