Baked Fresh Cherry Pie

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Description

YUMMY–uses fresh cherries!

Ingredients

  • 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie
  • 4 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 4 cups pitted cherries
  • ¼ teaspoon almond extract
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ tablespoons butter

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C). Place bottom crust in pie pan. Set top crust aside
  2. covered.
  3. In a large mixing bowl combine tapioca
  4. salt
  5. sugar
  6. cherries
  7. and extracts. Let stand 15 minutes. Turn out into bottom crust and dot with butter. Cover with top crust
  8. flute edges and cut vents in top. Place pie on a foil-lined cookie sheet–in case of drips!
  9. Bake for 50 minutes in the preheated oven
  10. until golden brown. Let cool for several hours before slicing.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 50 mins

Total Time: 3 hrs 20 mins

Servings: 8

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