Hi...is this where you wanted me to come?!

[jglass]

Hello Erin. Glad you joined us.

[erinw16]

Pie crusts in the sauces thread....hmmm..okay, that works for me! Thanks for the tip, maybe one day soon I'll be brave enough to give it a try. I do have some fresh blueberries that my mom sent me from Michigan that would be great in her dutch blueberry cheese pie....yum, now my mouth is watering!

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

And she's a tease, now come on Erin...you just gotta share the dutch blueberry cheese pie recipe, not fair to get us all drooling for some... we need the recipe, it sounds delicious!!!

[erinw16]

Okay...no more teasing! This is my mom's recipe and she always tells people one tidbit when sharing it, so I will pass it on, too. It is a bit temperamental and doesn't always set up well...sometimes it is just a runny purple mess. But regardless of how it sets up, it is always delicious! Maybe one of you will have a suggestion on how to get it to set up better.

Dutch Blueberry Cheese Pie

Pastry for 9-inch pie, single crust

8 oz. cream cheese
1 egg
1/3 c. sugar
1/2 t. vanilla

4 c. blueberries (I have used both fresh and frozen)
3/4 c. sugar
3 T. tapioca
1/4 t. cinnamon (optional, to taste)

Topping:
2/3 c. flour
2/3 c. brown sugar
3 T. butter

Beat cream cheese, egg, 1/3 c. sugar and vanilla until fluffy.
Pour into unbaked pie shell.
Mix blueberries, sugar and tapioca with cinnamon. Pour over cheese mixture in pie shell.
Cut butter into flour and brown sugar; crumble over berries.

Bake at 375 for 40-45 minutes. Cover edges of crust with foil if they brown too quickly.

ENJOY!!

[Mama Mangia]

have you tried cooking the berries with the sugar and cinnamon; then adding the cornstarch or the tapioca to thicken? Some will cook half the berries, thicken and remove from heat, add the remaining berries and then fill the crust.

in place of tapioca you can use cornstarch with water to make a paste -

there are several options when making fruit pies

here's another old tip - to thicken the juices of the fruit, mix flour with the sugar used for sweeteneing pie. When using an under crust, sprinkle the lined pie pan with part of the combined sugar and flour before turning in the fruit, and cover the fruit with flour and sugar before adjusting the upper crust to the pie.


cook or not to cook the berries or half the berries - that is your choice

you can play around with this easily