I found some beautiful blueberries at the market and couldn’t pass them by. I bought A LOT with the idea of making pie for a neighborhood barbecue. I didn’t have the time and energy to make four blueberry pies, so I did what my mother always did in the summer with the blueberries from my uncle’s farm, I made a slab pie. Her pie was topped with a mixture of melted butter and white cake mix, but I’ve always made mine with two crusts because I love a lovely light flaky crust almost as much as I love sweet blueberries with sugar and cream. This recipe is based on Martha Stewart’s who is by far the best pie maker I’ve ever known (not personally, just by way of cookbooks and tv shows) although Ina can bake a mean fruit pie also.
Make this before summer is gone or you’ll regret it all winter long!
PrintBlueberry Pie for a Crowd
Ingredients
- pastry:
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 t Kosher Salt
- 2 t sugar
- 2 sticks butter, cold, cut into smallish pieces
- ice water – about 7 T
- filling:
- 6 cups fresh blueberries
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 1/4 c cornstarch
- 1 t vanilla
- 1 T lemon juice (about 1/2 lemon)
- 1/4 t salt
- raw or “blonde” sugar to sprinkle on the top
Instructions
- process flour salt and sugar in food processor
- add butter, process about 10 seconds
- with machine running, add water 1 T at a time until dough holds together
- process as little as possible so dough doesn’t toughen
- shape dough into a rectangle and refrigerate at least one hour wrapped in plastic wrap
- preheat oven to 375 degrees
- mix together ingredients for filling
- roll half of dough out to fit a 15 x 10 rimmed baking sheet
- place dough in sheet pan
- fill with blueberry filling
- roll top and place on top of filling
- prick top dough all over with a fork and sprinkle with raw sugar
- Bake about 40 to 55 minutes or until top starts to brown and filling is bubbling
Let it cool for a while, but it’s worth the mess to serve it warm if you don’t mind a few runny blueberries or so.
I’m a BIG fan of blueberries! YUM!
Oh, that looks so yummy!
This looks like the right place for Alphabe-Thursday. I hope so anyway. I just have to get used to your new blog format. That pie looks delicious! I love blueberries.
I love blueberries and I need to make a pie. Yum! This high altitude makes it difficult to make a homeamde crust so I often use the store bought ones. I use to get blueberry sour cream pie when my oldest daughter worked for Marie Callender restaurants. Double yum. Your pie is a perfect masterpiece. Thanks for sharing.
A great choice for this kind of pie! and healthy (“they” say blueberries are good to keep one’s memory sharp – and boy, do I need that:) )
Well, you’ve done it again! Now my sweet tooth is begging for blueberry pie! (I’m not a baker, so I’ll just join in your neighborhood bbq!)
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Hi SarahBeth,
We’d love to have you!
RMW
Fantastic color in your photo and of course looks very yummy!
artmusedog and carol
Have a great weekend
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I just realized that I haven’t seen blueberry pie in bakeries in a long time. Maybe I ought to make one. Yours looks mighty yummmy.
The View from the Top of the Ladder
I’m coming to your house for dessert!
Mouthwatering
Oh wow! What a delicious looking slab pie! I have never made one and just recently in the past year
heard about them. I know where have I been.
It is one of your recipes that I have to try.
I have really really missed you. I am having a couple of good days so I am trying to catch up with some of my blogging
buddies and I even wrote a post myself. I do miss blogging and of course your wonderful site.
Now I have to see what I have missed on your site.
Love
Maggie
thank you for your compliment on my post. i came to this post because the photos look yummy and could also be Christmas decorations. your photos are amazing. I suffer from the same disorder of food, but eating to much of it, not taking photos of it or cooking.
In Australia, berries are so expensive so I look upon berry recipes with a measure of lust and envy as well as inspiration! I remember visiting North America and seeing all these blueberries at great prices and rueing the fact that I was staying at a hotel because I wanted to bake a pie!