BLACKBERRY PIE
- 6 cups blackberries
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ cup cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ½ cup water
- Baked pie shell
Cook 2 cups of blackberries with sugar, water, cornstarch, lemon juice, and butter. Bring to a simmer and cook for 1 minute until mixture has thickened. Place 2 cups of blackberries on the bottom of pie shell. Pour cooked mixture over and add the remaining 2 cups of blackberries to top. Chill for 4 hours. Makes a very pretty summertime pie.
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—Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food written by Jim Casada and Tipper Pressley
The pie is delicious! But I haven’t made one yet this summer. Our tame blackberries haven’t done as well as usual.
I’ve been keeping my eye on the wild blackberries but they are only ripe here and there. Hopefully we’ll get a real flush of ripe blackberries soon.
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Tipper, you reminded me to check my thornless blackberries and I picked enough for a cheesecake (or pie). Now I need to check the wild ones. They haven’t done well the past few years but with all the rain maybe they will this year. The tame berries were damaged by cold last year but are producing this year. They have a good flavor, are huge berries but I don’t care for the large seeds.My husband loved to make blackberry cheesecake. The recipe is almost the same as for your pie. Blueberries or others can also be used.
1 egg
1/2 c. Sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 8 oz pkg cream cheese, softened
1 9” Graham cracker crust, baked
Combine egg, sugar, vanilla and cream cheese. Beat until smooth. Spoon into crust. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 min. Cool.
Topping:
6 cups blackberries, divided
1 cup sugar
3 Tblsp cornstarch
1/2 cup water
Mash enough berries to measure 1 cup pulp. Combine sugar and cornstarch. Gently stir in water and crushed berries. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture boils and thickens. Boil and stir one minute longer. Add remaining whole berries. Cool. Top the cooled cheesecake with berry topping. Chill.
Sallie, that sounds delicious! Thank you 🙂
That sounds delicious! Thank you for sharing!
We moved to East Tennessee 18 months ago. We had a huge
thorn less blackberry bush at our old house in West Tennessee. We don’t have blackberries at our new house. I sure miss those blackberries. I am definitely going to find some at the farmer’s market and make this pie. I love your cookbook.
Though I now live in France, where pastries are works of art, and I have literally travelled the world I have vivid memories of summers on our Michigan farm in the 1950’s. After a hot, scratchy day of gathering wild blackberries when I was 9, I proudly presented my dessert of Blackberry Slump to the rest of the family. Back in those days, we were brought up to be kind, so no one actually showed how disgusting it was and, by now, no one remembers it except me.
As always, Tipper, thank you!
My Grandmother made cobbler pies in a deep side (3-4 inch) round white enamel pan. They would only have a top crust on them, be kinda juicy and full of dough balls, dumplings to me. She would use blackberries or other fruit for these pies. Grandmother died in 1968, I haven’t had a pie like that in many years. Mother would make some that were similar.
My mom made blackberry cobblers when our blackberry bushes produced. They were so good! That blackberry pie looks delicious too!
Looks like I’m fixing to get another bumper crop this year, and I still have berries in the freezer from last year’s bumper crop! It’ll be a lot of cobblers and smoothies this year, to clear out space in the freezer…………oh, or maybe I’ll just juice all of ’em from this year and make jelly.
There’s plenty of wild blackberries around me but it’s been too hot this week to get out to get them. I picked some week before last and we made jam and jelly. Maybe the temps will be a little more favorable soon and I can get some more before they’re all gone.
Nothing like fresh blackberry pie or cobbler.
I love pies, and I’ll have to make this one. Cobblers are my specialty though. My family’s favorite is when I do mangos. It’s like peach but a deeper taste.
Thanks so much. Looks yummy!!
My wild blackberries are just starting.I hope I get some before the birds and deer eat them all. The pie looks and sounds great. My dad use to make Blackberry Dumplings. My sister said if I get enough I need to make them. She don’t cook but she will put an order in some times. LOL. My dad was a great cook and we’d pick blackberries all day if he said he’d make those Dumplings.The smell ,the look, the taste. I know mine won’t be as good as his but I guess I need to get out there and pick some.
Lol, we not only had to beat the birds and the deer to the berries, we also had to beat my Grandmother’s enormous Golden Retriever to the bushes! That silly dog would carefully wrap his slobbery lips around a blackberry and carefully pick it off.
Good morning. That blackberry pie looks delicious. You made me want a piece of pie, but I didn’t have any blackberries. So I got busy, made a crust, and I just put Miss Cindy’s blueberry pie in my oven a few minutes ago. Hubby loves it, so he will be happy. I will have to find some blackberries at a farmers market so I can try this recipe next time. Have a wonderful day!
That pie sounds delicious. I’m going to try it with raspberries as blackberries are way too scarce. Thanks for the recipe.
Blackberry pie, blackberry cobbler, blackberry jelly, yes please! Oh, and someone else mentioned that wonderful Mayfield Vanilla Bean ice cream, so good!
The pie looks so good! I hope everyone has a great week!
This recipe for blackberry pie is very good! A scoop of Mayfield’s vanilla bean ice cream hits the spot on a summer day.
Everyone have a great day!
My mom made all kinds of pies when we were growing up. One place we lived had a blackberry bush and a bunch of rhubarb growing by the garage. My dad also had a little patch of strawberries that he grew ( that the Catbird liked to steal). Blackberry pie and strawberry rhubarb pies are just two of the pies she used to make. My mom loved to bake; unfortunately that gene didn’t fall to me. While I miss my mother’s pies, I miss her so much more. She’s been gone now for twenty-four years.
Looking forward to some blackberry cobbler soon! It and peach are my favorite.
Our blackberries aren’t ready yet either. The pie looks delicious and wish I could eat a big piece.
We have been picking mulberries and wild black raspberries. I cannot have anything with seeds so I will make things with the juice.
Our grandchildren help me pick and they eat them as fast as we pick them. I love that! We are making lasting memories together. They really want the jelly, so they soon realize if they eat them all there will be none. If they ate them all it wouldn’t bother me none.
The conversation always turns to questions about when I was a girl, or about their great grandparents. I love that, too! They are interested in their heritage and that makes my heart joyful. They are children who love the outdoors and Im so grateful. I love the fact they still want to hang out picking berries at the age there getting. Soon they’ll outgrow me as my momma would say. They’ll be off with friends, or get a sweetheart. Until then I’ll enjoy this precious time together.
Years ago we had a bounty of wild blackberries at the edge of our backyard. Naturally a cobbler was on our July 4th menu. For at least five years though, we’ve bought them at roadside stands because we barely had enough for a small bowl. Made some happy memories early on with my grandson though!
oh my that looks so good—but I dont drive anymore so I can no longer drive out to the country for picking blackberries and my goodness the price of them at the store or farmers market is far more than I am willing to spend on what I use to pick every year by the buckets full (and I mean a milk bucket) guess I am a little stubborn lol. But that picture sure makes me want to try the recipe. How blessed is the person who not only can drive to the country but who lives in the country on land that has wild blackberries (even with the chiggers the thorns and snakes) growing — another one of God’s gifts to us, free tasty and healthy food for us that requires just to take the time for picking and be willing to put forth the effort of harvesting what He has provided. I was wondering if all the rains you have had from as far back as last year when the hurricane hit your state up to and including the many recent rains could have just weakened the root ball of that tree causing it to be victim of winds–therefor not taking a not all that strong wind to send it crashing into your garden as well as the other trees that fell in your holler. Hope Granny has a good week, prayers for her.
Gaylia, I am one of those blessed country people you mentioned. I have lived my entire life (71 years) on the 35acres of country land that has now been in my family for over 100 years. It is now some of the most rural land left in southern Greenville county, SC. A lot of the land is woods but in places there are wild blackberry vines on it. In my childhood , my grandparents, mother and a couple of neighbors would all get together and make a party out of picking wild blackberries. I got to tag along. Please don’t call trying to buy my land, it has already been deeded to my son. I did this in case I someday wind up in a nursing home, in fact I now have nothing in my name except a joint bank account with him. I thank God everyday for having a son I could trust well enough to do this. He loves the land just as much as I do.