When I was a first grader… “On Cherry Street” was one of the readers that we went through to get to the second grade. It was a great book. Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot and Puff. Crazy adventures… ah, good times, good times. I have a copy of it somewhere… and I think that “Mother” is making a pie in one of the pictures… well she is holding a pie anyway. Could have been another book…. could be my imagination… I don’t care. I just want a cherry pie.
So this is the recipe that is even better than the storybook.
It’s still a little bit too sweet for me, even after cutting down the sugar… could have been that the canned cherries that I used already had sugar in them…. hmmmm, next time I’ll probably add in a chopped apple into this mix before adding the topping to bulk up the fruit and cut the sugar. It was still good this way too.
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1 can cherries
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¼ C sugar
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½ C water
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2 T potato starch
Mix and microwave for 5 minutes, stir once in awhile until thick.
Pour into tart pans.
Topping:
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3 T palm shortening
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¼ C brown sugar
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¼ C brown rice flour
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¼ C white rice flour
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½ tsp baking powder
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¼ tsp xanthan gum
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1 tsp vanilla
Mix well with a fork. Crumble on top of cherry filling.
Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes or until browned.
