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The Taste of Summer | Blackberry Pie

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This blackberry pie recipe calls for maple syrup instead of granulated sugar. Made with fresh or frozen berries, it tastes like summer in dessert form. One single blackberry, sun-warm and sweet on my tongue, can instantly transport me back to the summer-time of my childhood….

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Peachy | Peach Pie with Blackberries & Ginger

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It’s hard to go wrong with sweet peaches, handpicked blackberries, brown sugar, and lots of love. This Peach Pie with Blackberries and Ginger hits the spot.

Peach Pie with Blackberries and Ginger

While devouring Sarah Weeks’ mystery novel Pie, Eliza decided she wanted to bake her way through the recipes that appear at the beginning of each chapter.   For me, this seemed like a great challenge to embark on with my budding reader/baker….

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Sweet Tart | Lemon Chess Tart

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This lemon chess tart is sweet, tangy, and delicious. It’s rich pine nut crust perfectly complements its tart filling.
 
Lemon Chess Tart
 
My hand involuntarily reached for the book nestled on the “new” shelf in the kids’ section of our public library.   The three-letter title —Pie–told me all I needed to know;  if this novel featured pie, I wanted to read it.
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Jam-Packed | Peekaboo Jam Tart

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I‘ve always operated under the assumption that real people don’t make puff pastry.  Since most recipes that call for it for include “frozen puff pastry, thawed,” on their ingredient lists, I just figured that the secret to all those crazy layers required too much magic for the likes of me to discover.
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Apple Raid | Frozen Apple Pie Pucks

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Take advantage of large apple harvests by creating frozen apple pie pucks ready to bake straight from the freezer on a moment’s notice.

 I feel winter coming. Every day we’re losing three-and-a-half minutes of sunlight. I’m not happy about this. I like sunlight….

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American Pie | Blue Ribbon Apple Pie

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Maple syrup instead of sugar adds its distinctive sweetness to this award-winning apple pie recipe.
 
Before I moved to Friday Harbor, Washington, I’d never attended a county fair.   I couldn’t even tell you the location of the fair grounds where I grew up in Northern California.  
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