Great-Great Oma's Blueberry Pie

 When Peter's mother was visiting a few weeks ago, we made a blueberry pie with the blueberries Penelope and I picked.  The recipe is from Maria Muller, Penelope's  Great-Great Oma ( that's Grandma in German.)  I hope you all  feel very privileged to have this recipe given to you!  I did not grow up cooking with my mother, nor do I have any recipes from either of my grandmothers, so I absolutely treasure this recipe.  It doesn't hurt that it is super delicious as well.

To start, make the pie crust by combining the following: 1 stick unsalted butter, 2 cups self rising flour, 3/4 cup sugar and 1 whole egg.  Mix all the ingredients by hand in a bowl.  When all the ingredients are mixed and form a smooth ball, take out and roll over a piece of freezer paper until is nice and smooth.

 

Press dough into a buttered pie pan and make sure its pressed in evenly.  I only had a glass pie pan, and it you can't use glass for some reason with this recipe, so we did it this non-stick square pan I had.  Put some bread crumbs on top, just a thing layer that covers all  the dough.  The bread crumbs soak up the moisture from the fruit, so the crust is not soggy.  Savea some of the dough to make the pie crust top.

Pause to take a picture of Penelope and her Omi in her pretty new dress that Omi bought her!  Thanks Omi!

For the filling we used about a pound of blueberries.  I would have used more next time, because I love me some blueberries, but you have to be careful not to use too much or the pie crust will be soggy.  Then just sprinkle sugar on top of the blueberries.  Your call how much, we didn't put too much sugar, since these blueberries were picked at the peak of ripeness and were crazy sweet already.   You can also use green apples. If you use green apples, cut up 4 apples, very thin and cover the whole pie crust, about 1 inch in height, sprinkle with sugar, and cinnamon.

We used the remainder of the pie crust and rolled up strips for the top.  If we had used a normal pie pan, we would have had enough to do a grid pattern.  We did a P for Penelope instead!  Bake in the oven at 350, for about 50 minutes.  Then eat some pie right out of the pan like we did. What you shouldn't do is store the pie in the oven, so your counters are clear when people come over to see your house for sale, and then forget its in there and preheat the oven to cook something and ruin the rest of the pie.   Selling my house is SO fun!

Hope you enjoy!  Please send me an email or leave a comment if you make this recipe!