Miss Cindy will have been gone a year this Friday. Seems like only yesterday she was barreling up the driveway bringing us this or that and staying long enough to see what we had going on for the day.
The whirlwind of her cancer diagnosis, sickness, and death still hasn’t fully settled in my mind. It might be that it never will.
In honor of Miss Cindy this week I’ll be sharing posts about her or things she said over the years here on the Blind Pig and The Acorn. I’ve always said she was my biggest fan and the driving force behind encouraging me to start Blind Pig & The Acorn in the first place.
I love blueberries! My favorite way to eat them is by the handful, but a close second would be in a slice of pie. Years ago Miss Cindy taught me to make the best blueberry pie ever.
Miss Cindy’s Blueberry Pie
- 2 pie crusts (you can make your own or the box variety works well too)
- about 3 to 4 cups of blueberries
- 2 heaping tablespoons of flour
- 1 cup of sugar
- half a stick of butter
- 1 egg white
- additional sugar
Roll out the bottom crust; press it into a pie plate; add the blueberries; and sprinkle flour and sugar over blueberries.
Cut a half stick of butter into pieces and add to blueberries.
Put the top crust on and crimp the edges of it together with the bottom crust. I’m sure yours will be as pretty as Miss Cindy’s mine never is. Brush the top with an egg white and sprinkle sugar on it. With a sharp knife cut a couple of lines in the center of the top crust to allow steam to escape.
Bake at 350 for one hour or till crust is golden brown. I usually put a biscuit pan under mine while it cooks to catch any juice that might drip.
After you take the pie out of the oven let it cool for at least 30 minutes to give the juices time to settle down. We usually cut it as soon as it comes out. Because sweet drippy juice doesn’t bother us at all.
Miss Cindy’s recipe works great with other fruits to especially apples. It also works well with frozen berries. If you make the pie I hope you like it as much as we do.
Last night’s video: Finally Planting the Raised Beds on the Bank & the Hallways of Tipper’s Mind.
Tipper
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Thank you so much, Tipper, for sharing Miss Cindy with us. Well, that was actually a typo. I meant to say Thank you for sharing Miss Cindy’s Blueberry pie recipe with us. But that 1st sentence isn’t really a typo. It’s true. So thank you. 🙂 I understand how this first year feels, so I’m thinking of you & your family & you remember your beloved Miss Cindy.
Tipper I just came on to tell you that today is mine and my husbands 15th wedding anniversary and I just popped the blueberry pie from your cookbook in the oven for our celebration dessert. Seems so fitting that this was the first post I saw. You’re both a part of our day today in a way. Praying for you now as you miss her!
L-that is so wonderful! Happy Anniversary!! I’m honored to be part of your special day 🙂
Sure Do Miss Her!
I made this pie last summer and will definitely make it again this summer. So easy. Thank you Miss Cindy ❤
Hey Tipper- I love to click on, read, and explore past posts from the archives; and I have come across many comments from Miss Cindy. She always seemed very encouraging and a great cheerleader for you. I know you must miss her very much. I always have wanted to try her blueberry pie recipe. It looks delicious. I am looking forward to your posts this week.
Miss Cindy was a beautiful lady. I’m sure she was a joy to know. You will always miss her but what wonderful memories all of you have of her.
I will be trying this pie, soon. What a lovely lady Miss Cindy was. Matt must have been so proud to call her momma. Love to all and have a blessed and wonderful week ahead. Still on baby watch?
Jennifer-we are 🙂
It surely does not seem like a year since Miss Cindy left this world!!! Getting to know all of you through your blog and your YouTube channel has been such a blessing for me!!! I feel as though I know you and each of you have become an extended family member for me. I love that your will be devoting this entire week of blog posts about Miss Cindy!!! May Miss Cindy rest in peace, always be with you and watch over you from Heaven!!!
This sounds simply delicious! What a lovely way to honor her memory.
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True Beauty !!! All of it !!!
Thank you for sharing it with us all !!!
God Bless you & keep you all this week & always !!!
This is a great idea to keep Miss Cindy’s memory alive!
Tipper – blueberries are good any which way one makes them – I have some every day – mixed in yogurt, or on my cereal, in a salad, & I bake with them – fresh when in season, otherwise frozen, or in jam, or juiced.
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Just copied the pie recipe. She was such a beauty and you will probably miss her forever. Thanks for offering you memories and recipe.
Miss Cindy’s recipe is a perfect traditional pie recipe. I, too, was thinking that most fruit pies used the same recipe. I was also thinking of the many things she gave to you, especially the Christmas dishes, and laughing about the dishwashers. Mine is also used for storage because I’m a better and faster dishwasher than that noisy, expensive-to-run machine! It’s so nice seeing pictures of Miss Cindy. It’s still hard to believe she’s gone.
Miss Cindy was a beautiful lady. I am so glad she encouraged you to start The Blind Pig and The Acorn. I read her comments for years and it was easy to see how much she loved her family. The pie recipe sounds like one I remember from years ago called Magic Pie. I can’t wait to try it after the heat wave settles down and I can use my oven again.
Wow! What a great, beautiful, and insightful woman Matt had for a mother! She gave you so many physical things to start and then keep a home for her son, so much help and advice, and then encouragement to help you expand your personal attributes. She will live on in your heart forever, Tipper. She was a treasure. Now you can be all that to your daughters and carry on the legacy. It makes my heart glow to know there was such a warm and caring person in the world. Thank you for sharing her with us!
I’ve made Miss Cindy’s pie many times but not recently. I don’t let mine get cool, I like it to get cold. Refrigerator cold. Like next day cold or even next week. I eat all my fruit pies cold except strawberry. I don’t eat it at all.
The loss of Miss Cindy seems to have changed the tenor of your blog. For better or for worse, I don’t know. Maybe it’s just different or maybe it’s just me.
I miss Miss Cindy too!
There are certain people who just look like royalty and that’s what I think of when I see pictures of Miss Cindy. She seemed like a kind and thoughtful lady. I can’t wait to see all the things you will write about this week.
What a coincidence, we had blueberry muffins this morning. Lord willing, we’ll have blueberries to pick very soon so a pie sounds good. Your post about Miss Cindy made me realize, I am about to have more relationships over there than I have here. Not an astonishment that it occurs but an astonishment to realize it. This world is dimming bit by bit, by design I think. (On a different note, I asked a fellow (displaced) astern Kentuckian about “keel over” and she knew it well.)
Somehow I believe the departed are looking down on us and keeping watch from their heavenly home. Losing a parent, child or sibling is a terrible thing to endure indeed. Somehow, the loss never seems to go away in the heart. We know our loved ones are in heaven and have only happiness and joy there, but there’s a longing and missing here still, despite our intentions. Miss Cindy was very attractive, but more than that she raised a fine son who has a fine family. Her legacy lives on in her grandchildren and her great grandsons! There is beauty in life’s cycles. The pie recipe looks wonderful and I will try it! Thank you Miss Cindy, for all the joy you brought and your wonderful ways which brighten and liven up every day! Happy First Anniversary in Heaven! May you find comfort in your tremendous loss this week I pray in Jesus’ Holy name!!!
Time seems to heal wounds, but not memories–especially ones from good people
I grate a peeled Granny Smith on large holes of grater and mix into the blueberries. It disappears as it bakes. It thickens the juices naturally with all its pectin. I also put in a squeeze of lime juice. You should try blueberry cornbread. It’s wonderful!
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I read your comment about memories. The memories or pictures of my wife, daughter and other love ones cut/ hurt me just like a knife would. I turn my head if a see a picture of them. I mentioned earlier my wife died 3 years ago, there is not a day or night that goes by without me thinking or dreaming of her, we were 16 and 17 years old when we started going together. I dread Oct. 26 of this year, it would be our 50th wedding anniversary. After my eyes/ heart locked on her one night in Jan. 1972 at church, my heart never wanted anyone else. My eyes would glance at the menu every now and then.
Tipper, how fortunate you were to have such a beautiful, encouraging mother-in-law in your life. I’ve gone back in the archives and read her post and came to the conclusion we could have been “thrifting” friends!
Thank you for sharing the recipe.
I can’t believe it’s been a year since you all lost her, time goes by so fast. I hope to remember to try this pie!
Sweet lady. I know she is missed by all who knew and loved her.
my daughter passed shortly after Miss Cindy on the 28th. we were in the hospital preparing to go to hospice when you announced her death. sometimes it doesn’t seem real, but I’m so thankful that one day we’ll see them again.
Kim-I’m so sorry you and the rest of her family lost her. I am very thankful you know you’ll see her again!!
I always enjoyed reading Miss Cindy’s comments. For me it seems in some kind of way time goes by faster after one dies. My wife has already been died 3 years but for me it seems like it was just yesterday.
I read all of the older post and comments about fathers yesterday. I laughed when I read about Pap pulling over close to the edge of the road when a passenger had their arm out of the window. It brought back memories of my teenage years when we would be driving cars with two sixty air conditioning, it was common if we had a friend riding with us to try to catch them with the arm hanging out the window to try to get the tall weeds growing on the shoulder of the back roads to smack their arm. If you heard a lot of fussing, cussing and name calling you knew you had been successful.
For the folks that might not know, two sixty air conditioning it is rolling 2 windows down and driving 60mph. Doing 60 mph was a problem with some of the clunkers we drove.
Miss Cindy was a beautiful lady.
We made two yesterday for Fathers Day and they were quite good! Good recipe!
Miss Cindy was really a beautiful woman, inside and out. What a blessing to have such a wonderful, supportive and encouraging mother-in-law Tipper. That pie sounds delicious, I believe I’m going to give it a try, thank you!
My goodness, Tipper. Miss Cindy was so beautiful. She must have been told this her whole life. May she rest in peace and may her memory be a blessing to you all. Thank you for sharing this recipe!