Simmering the berries softened them and made the flavors blend together nicely taking away a bit of the berry s tartness. A saskatoon pie also makes for a nostalgic sweet for mothers in law in the hospital where the desserts that arrive on the nightly dinner tray rhymes with hell o and comes in a plastic cup. Saskatoons resemble blueberries with a nutty cherry like flavor. I live in stonebridge a new sub division in saskatoon and the city planners were nice enough to plant saskatoon bushes amongst the greenery around some of our parks. Living in saskatoon saskatchewan we love a good saskatoon pie recipe.
This isn t the prettiest pie i ve made i had slightly less pastry than i needed left over from another baking project but someone once said that the best kind of pie is the kind that s on the. This recipe didn t travel with them from the ukraine but was created out of the sheer abundance of local saskatoon berries that they discovered in manitoba when they immigrated making me the fourth known generation to use this recipe for making amazing saskatoon pie. Seal and flute edges. Pour into pastry lined pie plate. As a resident of saskatoon saskatchewan i ve made and eaten saskatoon pie many times.
Cover with top crust. Cover with top crust. This isn t the prettiest pie i ve made i had slightly less pastry than i needed left over from another baking project but someone once said that the best kind of pie is the kind that s on the. This recipe is excellent. Simmering the berries softened them and made the flavors blend together nicely taking away a bit of the berry s tartness.
