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You're Beautiful Blueberry Pear Crumble Pie (in a jar!)

8/13/2016

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Something special this week! Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Tour is in town, and I thought it would be fun to make the cast some pies in a jar, inspired by the Waitress pies you get in the theater!

"You're Beautiful Blueberry Pear Crumble Pie: Sweet juicy blueberries baked with ripe pears, topped with a walnut and pecan crumble, and a pie crust music note. Baked to perfection in a mini mason jar."
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Choose your juicy pears. Barlett or D'Anjou are the best!
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Peel and chop pears...
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...add in blueberries...
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...to cornstarch, sugar, lemon zest and lemon juice.
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Prepare your walnut and pecan crumble topping.
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Prepare 4oz mason jars. (This recipe is for 12.)
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Spoon fruit mixture in each jar, filling it 3/4 of the way to the top...
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...till it looks like this!
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Spoon 2 TBSPN crumble right on top of the fruit mixture.
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Using a mini cookie cutter, cut out your shapes to top off the mini pies.
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Bake to perfection!
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Recipe for You're Beautiful Blueberry Pear Crumble Pie (in a jar!)

Yield: 12 jars 
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Ingredients:
-1 truly flaky crust (single, will have some crust left over)
-5 ripe but firm Barlett or D'Anjou pears
-1 pint fresh or frozen blueberries
-1/3 cup o' sugar
-1/2 TSPN lemon zest (zest of 1/2 a lemon)
-1 TSPN lemon juice  (juice of 1/2 a lemon)
-1/4 cup cornstarch

Crumble Topping:

1/4 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup lightly packed brown sugar
3/4 cup flour
1/4 cup oats (quick cook, not instant)
-1/2 stick melted and cooled butter
-1/8 TSPN baking soda
-1/8 TSPN baking powder
-1/4 TSPN salt


​+Extra equipment:  small cookie cutter


  1. Peel pears and cut into small 1/2 inch pieces, combine with blueberries.
  2. Add 1/3 cup of sugar, 1/2 TSPN lemon zest (zest of 1/2 a lemon), 1 TSPN lemon juice  (juice of 1/2 a lemon), and 1/4 cup cornstarch, and fold the mixture together. 
  3. Set mixture set aside.
  4. Combine chopped pecans, chopped walnuts, brown sugar, flour, oats, melted butter, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Combine with your hands until mixture is crumbly.
  5. Spoon about 1/2 cup of fruit mixture into each jar, or until it's 3/4 way full.
  6. Put 2 TBSPN crumble on top of the fruit. 
  7. Cut shapes with the mini cookie cutter from the pie crust, and place on top of crumble.
  8. Bake at 375F for 25-35 mins, or until fruit becomes bubbly.
  9. Let cool before serving.
  10. SUGAR, BUTTER, FLOUR!
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Deep (Shit) Dish Blueberry Bacon Pie

7/10/2016

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Cal: Jenna, what's the special pie today?
Jenna: Deep Shit Blueberry Bacon!
Cal: Deep Shit?
Jenna: Deep Dish! Deep Dish! Sorry Cal!


This is a great pie idea in theory right? What can go wrong? Blueberries? Yum. Bacon? Extra yum. Hmmm.. turns out there is quite a lot that can go wrong. Not going to lie to the blogosphere, this was attempt #2 at Deep (Shit) Dish Blueberry Bacon Pie. First attempt, was truly a DEEP and SHITTY disaster! I'll describe attempt #1 for your amusement: "Blueberries baked in a truly flaky crust with bits of crisped bacon, topped with a bacon lattice".

Well. I should have known using a whole pack of bacon would be complete overkill. But I had to use that much for the taste of bacon to come through right? Wrong. DEEPly wrong. As the raw bacon lattice cooked atop the pie, all the grease from the bacon dripped right into the blueberry filling, causing there to be far too much bacon grease in a pie. There was so much bacon grease in the pie, as we took the pie out of the fridge the next day, we had to wonder... what are these white solid bits of things my pie??? Solidified bacon grease. That's what. While the lattice idea was cute, and looked very even before being placed in the oven, the bacon strips shrunk while baked. Leaving me with bacon lattice that didn't even touch the crust edge.

Okay. Lesson learned. Too much bacon overpowers the blueberries, raw bacon cooked in the pie leaves a cup and a half of bacon grease in the pie, and cooked blueberries might not be the best pairing with bacon. So back to the drawing board. After the suggestion of my official pie taste tester Jonathan, to use fresh blueberries instead of cooked, I decided to turn this Deep SHIT Blueberry Bacon into Deep DISH Blueberry Bacon. A cream pie so delicious it is worthy of being on Jenna's Pie o' the Day Board. One worthy of: "It sold so fast today I couldn't quite believe it!" -Jenna

So here is Attempt #2. And it is perfect. Truly. "Deep (Shit) Dish Blueberry Bacon Pie: Freshly whipped maple cream, with fresh blueberries in a truly flaky crust. Topped with maple icing, and sprinkled with bits of crispy fried bacon."

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Crisp your bacon an a skillet.
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Add maple syrup to freshly whipped cream to create a maple cream.
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Fill truly flaky crust with maple cream.
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Make maple icing with powdered sugar and maple syrup.
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Pour icing into a plastic zip-loc bag.
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Pour fresh blueberries over maple whipped cream.
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Chop up crisped bacon into small bits.
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Cut hole in bag with icing, and drizzle over blueberries.
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Sprinkle bacon bits over the blueberries and icing.
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Slice, serve, and enjoy! Let the combination of sweet maple cream, fresh tart blueberries, and salty crisp bacon take your taste buds out of this world! And be careful, because this one will go quick!

Recipe for Deep (Shit) Dish Blueberry Bacon Pie


​Ingredients:
-1 truly flaky crust (single)
-1 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
-1/4 cup Grade A maple syrup
-4oz. of gelatin powder
-3 TBSPN of water
-2 pints fresh blueberries
-4 TBSPN maple syrup
-1/2 cup powdered sugar
-3 strips of fried, crisp bacon chopped into small pieces

Directions:
  1. Assemble your truly flaky crust into a pie shell, crimp edges
  2. Cover bottom and sides of crust with parchment or foil, add pie weights or dry kidney beans, and blind bake for 20-30 mins at 400F until edges are golden brown and crust is fully baked through. 
  3. Melt 4oz. gelatin powder into 3 TBSPN of water over a double boiler. Let gelatin mixture cool. 
  4. Whip 1 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream until it forms into cream. Whip cooled gelatin mixture into cream until fully incorporated, then whip 1/4 cup maple syrup into whipped cream.
  5. Let crust cool, and spread maple cream into truly flaky crust.
  6. Wash and dry (well!) 2 pints of blueberries, and assemble berries over the maple cream.
  7. Mix 4 TBSPN maple syrup and 1/2 cup powdered sugar with an electric mixer. When smooth, pour into a plastic bag draped over a cup or mug (to hold it's shape). Seal the bag, and cut a small end off the bag's corner. Drizzle generously over blueberries. *If you prefer your pie less sweet, use less icing
  8. Sprinkle chopped bacon over the icing before icing has hardened and set.
  9. SUGAR. BUTTER. FLOUR.

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Some shots of attempt #1 for (more of) your amusement!

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Remnant Pies!

7/6/2016

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What to do with the bits and pieces of fruit, truly flaky pie crust, and humble crumble? Make Remnant Pies!

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Throw all your leftover fruit together (peaches + raspberries, blueberries + cherries, etc., mix in some sugar, tapioca, and top with left over crumble or truly flaky crust (cut into smaller shapes)! Bake to perfection in disposable mini pie tins.
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Give as gifts! People LOVE mini pies!
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