During blueberry season, I froze several packages of blueberries. I used my frozen blueberries for this pie rather than fresh blueberries, and it still tasted great.

I freeze any fruit when in season and use in any recipe that calls for fresh fruit. If you use frozen berries from the grocery store, you will need to adjust the amount of sugar and flour. I’ve made a lot of recipes using berries, especially blackberries.

Fresh Blueberry Pie

Ingredients

• 5 cups fresh blueberries
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 14.1-ounce package refrigerated pie crusts
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 large egg, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Sprinkle berries with lemon juice and set aside. Place half of pastry in a 9-inch pie plate according to package directions. Combine sugar, flour, salt and cinnamon; add to berries and stir. Pour into pasty shell and dot with butter.

Unfold remaining pastry and place over filling, seal and crimp edges. Cut slits in top of crust to allow steam to escape. Brush top of pastry with beaten egg and sprinkle with sugar.

Bake for 35 minutes or until golden brown.

Hints:

• Cover edges of pie with aluminum foil, if necessary, to prevent over browning.
• If second pastry is creased when you take it out of the box, place on a floured surface and roll gently with a rolling pin to remove creases.
• This pie is especially good when served with vanilla ice cream.

From the scriptures

Spiritual food is essential for all of us, as well as physical food. We should nourish our mind and feed our spirit daily just as we feed our body. To memorize a weekly Bible Verse is a fabulous spiritual food. Try it, and you will see how easy it is to memorize scripture.

Our memory verse for this week is Romans 5:8 (ESV): “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”