Eboos Wild Scuppernong Pie Recipes

GOOSEBERRY PIE I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Place a baking sheet on a lower oven rack.
• Stem and rinse berries.
• Crush 1/2 cup berries in the bottom of a saucepan. Combine sugar, tapioca, and salt; mix with crushed berries. Cook and stir until mixture boils. Cook for 2 more minutes. Remove from heat, and add in remaining whole berries.
• Pour fruit filling into pastry. Adjust top crust; cut slits to allow steam to escape. Brush top crust with milk and sugar.
• Bake in preheated oven on baking sheet until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly, about 35 minutes.

EBOO'S WILD SCUPPERNONG PIE (WITH GRAPES)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine the grapes, sugar and jelly in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Lower the heat and simmer briskly, mashing the grapes with a potato masher, until the liquid is slightly thickened, about 5 minutes.
• In a small bowl, stir the cornstarch into 2 tablespoons water until dissolved. Add to the grape mixture and boil for 1 minute. Off the heat, stir in the lemon juice and butter.
• Roll out both of the pies crusts. Fit one crust into a 9-inch pie pan. Pour the grape filling into the crust. Top with the second crust. With a knife, cut vents in the top crust in several places. Brush with egg wash.
• Bake until the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbling, about 1 hour. Cool completely on a rack.

TRADITIONAL SHOOFLY PIE

Steps:

• Place pie crusts in 9 inch pie pans. Chill the crusts approximately 1 hour before use.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, stir together the baking soda and warm water. Mix in the molasses and stir until foamy. Transfer the mixture to the pie crusts.
• In a medium bowl, mix together flour, sugar and baking soda. Use a pastry blender to cut the butter into the flour mixture until very fine crumbs have formed. Sprinkle the crumbs over the molasses mixture in the pie crusts.
• Bake in the preheated oven 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and continue baking 35 minutes, or until crust is lightly browned and the filling has set.