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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes,rec.food.cooking
- From: japlady@nwu.edu (Rebecca Radnor)
- Subject: Red, white and blueberry cream pie
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- Message-ID: <199412091827.AA204097646@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 18:27:35 GMT
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- RED, WHITE AND BLUEBERRY CREAM PIE
- Preparation time: 30 minutes
- Cooking time: 8 minutes
- Chilling time: 4 hours or more
- Yield: One 8-inch pie
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- 1/2 cup cherries, pitted, quartered
- 1 tablespoon kirsch, optional
- 15 vanilla-cream sandwich cookies
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 small package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon each: pure vanilla extract, minced lemon rind
- 1 cup whipping cream, whipped to soft peaks
- 1 cup each: blueberries, strawberries, for garnish
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- 1. Combine cherries and kirsch in a small dish. Set aside while you make
- the crust.
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- 2. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Crush the cookies in a blender or food
- processor. Add butter and mix well. Press into an 8-inch pie plate. Bake
- until lightly colored, 8 minutes. Cool completely before filling.
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- 3. Beat cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and lemon rind until smooth. Drain any
- liquid from cherries into mixture. Fold into whipped cream. Sprinkle
- cherries over bottom of cooled crust. Top with cream mixture; refrigerate
- at least 4 hours or overnight.
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- 4. Up to several hours before serving, arrange berries on top for garnish.
- Refrigerate until serving time.
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