Croatian Sour Cherry Pie Recipes

CROATIAN SOUR CHERRY PIE

Steps:

• Make dough following this schedule: flour, breadcrumbs, and lemon rinds, sugar, baking powder, salt, and vanilla flavored sugar and melted butter.
• Mix everything in a bowl and at the end add egg yolks. Mix some more and add sour cream.
• Mix more until you get nice greasy dough. If it is too greasy you can add some more flour.
• When done, put into refrigerator for 2 hours.
• After 2 hours, put the dough out and work a little to make it soft. Cut away a piece of dough size little more than a softball ball.
• Roll the rest of dough into ½ cm thin sheet. Cover the bottom of 28cm low rim cake pan with butter, and put onto it a dough sheet. Make sure that the rim is also covered with dough from inside.
• First cover the sough surface with semolina (it will soak the juices). Put sour cherry on dough (you can use frozen also). Cover the sour cherries eith sugar and cinnamon.
• Mix egg yolks with sugar until become light yellow. Add heavy cream into and pour over sour cherry.
• The dough you have put aside now grate over the topping. Put the cake into preheated oven on 180°C and bake 45-50 minutes.

MY SOUR CHERRY PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Line 9" pie plate with one unbaked pie crust. Place in refrigerator while preparing filling.
• Combine sugar, cornstarch, and salt in large bowl. Add cherries and spinkle vanilla over the top. Toss cherries and sugar mixture until fruit in well-coated. Pour cherrry mixture into prepared pie crust. Top cherries with bits of butter.
• Place second unbaked pie crust on top of cherries, seal, trim, and flute edges. Brush entire crust with beaten egg.
• Bake 1 hour and 30 minutes, Cover pie crust loosely with foil if begins to brown excessively. Remove from oven onto to rack to cool. Melt orange marmalade over low heat. Brush warm pie with melted marmalade and cool completely.

PERFECT SOUR CHERRY PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Press the bottom pie crusts into 2 pie pans.
• Combine cherries, 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar, and cornstarch in a saucepan. Let sit until sugar begins to draw out the cherries' juices, about 10 minutes. Bring to boil, stirring constantly. Lower the heat; simmer until the juices thicken and become translucent, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in butter and almond extract until well mixed. Pour into the bottom half of the pie shells. Cover with top crusts, crimp the edges to seal, and cut vents into the top with a sharp knife.
• Bake in the preheated oven until crust is golden brown, 45 to 55 minutes.

SOUR CHERRY CRUMBLE PIE

Steps:

• Roll out a pie crust disk on floured surpace. Transfer to a 12 inch pie dish. Trim overhang to 1 inchl. Fold edges under. Crim, forming high rim. Chill at least 30 minutes and up to a day.
• For crumble:Mix first 6 ingredients in a bowl. Add butter which should be at room temperature as well as vanilla. Rub with fingers until small clumps form.
• For filling:Position rack in enter of oven. Preheat to 375°F Place foil-lined baking sheet in bottom of oven to catch spills. Mix sugar, flour, cinnamon and sald in large bowl. Add cherries, toss to coat. Let stand until cherries begin to release juice, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. Add almond extract and tapioca before mixing gently and transfering filling to chilled crust, mounding in center. You can decrease amount of tapioca if your cherries are not very juicy. Sprinkle crumble over, covering completely and pressing to adhere.
• Bake pie 20 minutes. Tent loosely with foil. Bake until filling bubbles thickly and streusel is golden, about 1 hour 15 minutes longer. Cool on a rack.