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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My favorite is apple pie with apple pie spices. My other close favorite is cherry pie made with the sour pie cherries that once were prolific in the orchards in Ft Collins and Loveland.
My favorite color!!!!!
Key lime pie all the way! But really, all pie is good pie.
Berry, any kind of berry
Coconut cream pie!
My favorite pie is key lime with pecan coming in a close second. Truthfully I’ll attack pretty much any pie. 🙂
Chocolate satin, key lime, pecan, Marie Callender’s double cream blueberry…who has just one favorite pie?
Mmm key lime pie!
Key lime, except on Thanksgiving and then it’s pecan pie!
Cherry is always my favorite even tho I do like other types!
My very favorite pie is olallieberry pie served at Duarte’s on the California coast in Pescadero, California. These lucious berries are locally grown. I like your idea of adding fresh blueberries to the pie!
Pumpkin pecan – it’s a two for one.
Peach!
Apple pie. My husband makes it the best!!! Never fail though he always struggles with the crust. But it always end up scrumptious!
I like fruit pies best – apple, blueberry, cherry, peach, strawberry-rhubarb, the list could go on and on
Pumpkin pie for me!
Mine is Apple especially with crumb top
I have several favorites – cherry, apple, blueberry & raspberry.
Peach Pie. My mum made the best and now that she has passed I wish I could make a pie like she could.
Hands down, Strawberry Pie from The Bird-in-Hand Restaurant in Bird-In-Hand, PA.
I love cherry pie made with sour cherries. When I was little we had a cherry tree in the back yard, and my sand box was right there. I spent many hours playing under that old cherry tree. Fond memories.
Any pie with berries!! With pumpkin a close second.
Strawberry rhubarb pie is my favorite!
Apple!
Strawberry rhubarb
Cherry pie is my first love.
Favorite pie? The apple pie I made for Thanksgiving. Two kinds of apples, plus caramel. Delicious!
Lemon meringue is my favorite!
My mom makes blueberry pie in a very similar fashion, but my favorite is strawberry pie.
My favorite kind of pie is thekindthatsomeonebakesforme.
Strawberry but blueberry is a close second. Your recipe looks amazing!
Two favorites – the traditional: peach pie and the family one: pudding pie that my Nana makes. It’s instant vanilla pudding with a graham cracker crust and meringue on top.
Pumpkin pie, but only my grandma’s recipe.
There is a peanut butter cup pie at at local place here that is to die for
Blueberry! the best pie
Cherry is my favorite with pumpkin a close second.
I love blueberry pie if the blueberries are not out of a can, but my very favorite pie is banana cream.
Hands down, Lemon Custard Pie! Homemade using Meyer lemons freshly picked from our tree!
I love a good French silk pie, even better if it has sliced almonds on top. The blueberry pie looks good, I think I may need to try that one!
Coconut cream!
My favorite is Blueberry pie. Can’t wait to try this recipe! Thank you!
Homemade apple pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. So yummy!
Apple caramel pie
French apple pie.
My favorite kind of pie is cherry!
Bourbon Pecan! Yum!
Hmm, tough to pick just one but I think I’d have to go with chocolate cream pie.
My favorite kind of pie is pumpkin!
Ooooo yum! My fav is a tiebetween mixed berry and cherry.
Definitely butterscotch pie!