The Girl and I went blackberry picking this morning and came home with baskets full of warm, juicy berries.  I couldn’t decide if I should make blackberry ice cream or a blackberry pie, so I decided to ask everyone on facebook and go from there.

Clearly, people would much rather eat a blackberry pie than a scoop of blackberry ice cream.

Interesting!

So {obviously} I made a pie.

And snapped a few pictures.

So you could drool over it.

Because I’m cruel like that.

I don’t know about you, but I like a nice thick crust when I’m eating a berry pie. I want to be able to soak up the berry juice with left over bits of golden, flaky goodness.  And you need a thick crust to do that.

I like to make my crusts with Crisco shortening.  I’d like to think my people {the Pilgrims} would have used it had they had it readily available to them in Colonial America.

In my book, Crisco is freakin’ awesome.  And that’s all I’m going to say about that.

Here’s the recipe –

Pie Filling

6 cups blackberries
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup all- purpose flour
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, chopped into bits
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Pie Crust

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup vegetable shorting
1 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons cold water

Directions

Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees

Combine pie crust ingredients together, divide in half, roll into a ball, use the palm of your hand to flatten crust to about 1 inch. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.  Roll out 1 crust and line a pie plate with it.

Combine filling ingredients in a large bowl and toss to coat.  Pour filling into crust lined pie plate and add second {flattened} crust. Crimp edges of pie crust together and brush with egg wash.

Place on a lined cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 50 minutes or until juices are bubbling.

Cool. Serve with a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream or whipping cream.

Looking for a few more delicious pie recipes?  Check out the book Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie by Ken Haedrich.  Basically, the book is awesome.  Enough said.