Fingers, mouths and toes stained purple with mulberry juice were the end result of time spent plucking delicious ripe mulberries off a friend's tree. While under that tree, my friend and I 'sampled' many berries, recounted memories of our childhood mulberry-picking days and talked of what we'd make with our shares of these Springtime berries.
Fresh mulberries from my friend's mulberry tree.
While my friend was dreaming of mulberry jam, I only had one thing in mind to make with my share of our little mulberry harvest...pie! A Mulberry and Apple Pie to be precise. Oh, my!
Freshly baked and delicious.
The golden pastry shell of this pie encases a delicious, not-too-sweet filling made from slices of tart apple and juicy, sweet mulberries. Just before filling the pie, the apple and the mulberries are tossed together with a little sugar, flours and cinnamon. While baking, the juice that oozes from the warming fruit is thickened a little by the flours to form a fragrant and fruity sauce.
This is the recipe that I followed to make this scrumptious pie. As always, I tinkered a little and substituted spelt flour and raw sugar and left out the cloves. I made the pastry in my Thermomix but you could easily make a simple shortcrust pastry or even use a ready-made pastry if you wanted to. What matters most are the mulberries!
Is there anything better than homemade pie... with cream?
So, if you have a mulberry tree, or you have a friend who does, go pick yourself some mulberries and make yourself a pie. Serve yourself a slice, with a generous dollop of thick cream, and then savor every bite. See if you can stop yourself at just one piece!
Meg
I haven't had a chance to net my mulberry tree this season as I need to buy new netting. The result is that the birds are eating most of my mulberries. Last season I baked an old recipe that was basically a mulberry crumble. It was so good. Your mulberry and apple pie looks fantastic.
ReplyDeleteMulberry crumble sounds delicious too, Sherri.
DeleteOh Yum. We had a mulberry tree at the farm and sadly we did not live there long enough to get a glut but there was enough to eat fresh and make a pie once which was amazing. I will hopefully have one in NZ.
ReplyDeleteThe photos of your land in your latest post look great, Fiona. So green! You might have room for two mulberry trees...imagine how many pies you could make with the fruit off those. Meg:)
DeleteThis pie sounds and looks very yummy Meg. I have some mulberries coming along so I might just try your recipe.
ReplyDeleteI pick the mulberries and pop them in the freezer until I have enough to make something :)
xTania
This pie is delicious, Tania. Freezing the mulberries is a good idea, I do a similar thing with the blueberries I pick from my two blueberry bushes. The ripe ones I pick go into a freezer bag until I have enough to make something yummy. Meg:)
DeleteOMG that looks soooo amazing! The trouble is I just keep eating them as I pick them!
ReplyDeleteI made another one of these today, Lucy. One of our lovely neighbours gave us a bag full of ripe mulberries and I couldn't think of a better way to use them up. There's a piece in my freezer with your name on it! Meg:)
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