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Cherries and mulberries make yummy pie While we were at my mom's house picking all of their strawberries, Joshua sneaked over to the sour cherry tree and mulberry bushes. We came home and made two beautiful cherry mulberry pies. My mom has been making cherry mulberry pies for many years, since they grow sour cherries as well as mulberries on their property. The sour cherries and mulberries ripen at the same time of year, so it's easy to mix the two. I absolutely love the flavor combination! Straight cherry pie made with sour cherries requires a lot of sugar, since sour cherries are so tart. Mulberry pie, on the other hand, is very sweet -- but lacks flavor by itself. For plain cherry pie, we have to use about 2 cups of sugar per pie -- but this recipe combining cherries and mulberries only uses 3/4 cup sugar for two pies. The fruit filling in this pie is a beautiful dark purple color. The flavor is just SO YUMMY. I'm always surprised when someone has never heard of combining sour cherries with mulberries for fruit pie! I could eat piece after piece of this pie. Yum. :) We made our own pastry flour for the crust, using soft white wheat. The crust was very flaky and tender. So delicious! I don't think I'll ever want to use all-purpose flour in pie crust again. Having a grain mill is such a luxury! I'm truly surprised at the new dimension it has added to our kitchen. We just figured out there is a mullberry tree in the empty lot next door. Now I just need to come up with a cherry tree . . . :>) Any more mullberry recipes would be greatly appreciated!!! That pie looks so good! I have several mulberry trees and one bush which gives us more berries than all the trees put together. I have been getting buckets of berries this year! :-D I know that the fully ripe mulberries have little flavor of their own, so I pick all the fully ripe ones and all the ones that look like they will probably be ripe tomorrow and those add much flavor. They are a deep dark red, instead of black. The two mixed together are luscious. I usually make jam with them all by themselves and it tastes like a sweet lovely wine. I love my mulberries! :-D Thanks for the pie idea. That pie looks good enough to eat all in one sitting!! I love pie over cake any day though. Where can I buy mulberries? Ive never even tasted them. can you buy them at the grocery store frozen? or is it one of those things I might have to find at a farmers market?  I don't know if mulberries are ever sold at the grocery store... a farmer's market night have them, or if you know someone who has a tree/bush and will let you come and pick! :) Many people don't use the fruit that grows nearby... if you see a bunch of ripe mulberries at someone's house, you could always stop and ask them if they minded if you picked some! My parents have done that with fruit trees in the past... people were thankful because they didn't like mowing over all of the fruit that fell... because they didn't want it! Probably a silly question... Are mulberries from a tree and a bush the same kind of berries? We have an enormous mulberry tree in my parents yard and we've never used it for anything other than dyeing the soles of our bare feet when we were kids! I had no idea they could be eaten and used!  I am one, who would never have thought of mixing cherries and mulberries. It looks and sounds delicious! ~Tanya - mama to 5 :) is peaches and sour cherries! I have never had a mulberry.....but your pie looks good! Your pie looks so good. I'm not sure what mulberries are though. Is it like blackberries? Mulberries are very sweet... and the tree/bush doesn't have thorns... they are about the same size and color as black berries, but very different in taste! :D By the way, Brandy, I do have a plain mulberry pie recipe coming... maybe tonight if I have time. :) My mom makes plain mulberry pies with some lemon in them. :) I love pretty much any kind of fruit pie, and this looks delicious. Thanks for another great recipe! we had a mulberry tree when I was growing up ~ never produced well, but it was such a treat to pick & eat from the tree! for your crust ~ did you use your regular perfect every time crust recipe & just swap the AP flour with WW? I used my normal "foolproof pie crust" recipe and replaced all of the flour it called for with whole wheat pastry flour (made from soft white wheat berries). :) We have lots of mulberries, but I shy away from using them because it takes me so long to cut off all the little stems. How do you deal with them? Am I missing something? My husband suggested leaving them on, but I'm not sure how that would work. We leave the stems on! We've always eaten then fresh or in pies with the stems on. I don't even notice them, I guess! I was looking forward to your mulberry recipes :) We have a mulberry tree/bush and I picked a few cups (at least!) over the past couple days. I looked for mulberry recipes on allrecipes.com and there were, like, two. I can't wait to try this! You know, I was looking at the recipe and I realized that I have no idea what Clear Jel is. I Googled it and it says it's a thickener (and it's sold dry, not a liquid?) and that Sure Jel is pectin (I actually knew that, surprisingly lol) So is there a different, non-pectin, type of Sure Jel? Or are they basically the same thing? See.. no idea lol. I would love to make this pie though, especially since we found out that a cousin of my husband's has sour/pie cherry trees :-D Thanks Tammy! Post new comment |
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Oh, it looks so yummy! I remember when I was a little girl we used to eat mulberries.
I'm hungry right now because I had my wisdom teeth out today and I can't eat. So i'm drooling all over your website. Looks like you've had some delicious food recently!
God bless your family.
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