MONTANA HUCKLEBERRY PIE

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Number Of Ingredients 4

3 tablespoons flour
3/4 cup sugar (more if berries are very tart)
4 cups fresh or frozen huckleberries (blueberries)
pastry for double-crust 9-inch pie (do try whole-wheat pastry flour)

Steps:

Mix flour and sugar with berries. Set aside. Roll out a little more than half the pastry dough to 1/8-inch thickness and fit into a 9-inch pie pan. Pour the berries into the pie shell. (If you use commercial blueberries, sprinkle 1 tablespoon lemon juice on top.) Roll remaining pastry a little thinner than for the bottom crust. Prick with your favorite design. Brush the edge of the bottom crust with cold water, and place the upper crust on pie. Press crusts together at the rim and trim off the excess dough. Flute the edge. Bake in a preheated 450° oven for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat to 350° and bake about 40 minutes. Note: Montana huckleberries are really blueberries. The scientific name of the genus is Vaccinium and that is the blueberry genus. But these wild berries are a world apart from the commercial blueberry, so they deserve a distinct title. We Montanans will fight for the name "huckleberry."

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