4th of July Pie

What started as inspiration from the July issue of the Martha Stewart Living magazine ended in a beautiful creation between mom and daughter. Fourth of July has always been a fun holiday for my fmaily. Our usual tradition is to have a cook out nad then go see fire works. this year my paretns came to visti Brian and I and it was turn to host the Fourth. I planned a great menu; turkey burgers, corn on the cob, sweet potato fries, the PIE and home made vanilla ice cream.

We made the pie in the morning. In Martha's original recipe you make six mini pies and decorate them each differently. I decided to make one pie and make it look like the American flag. She also had two filling options Raspberry-Strawberry or Blueberry- Blackberry. I decided to make both filling and use the blue filling for the stars and the red for the stripes.



We started with a lot of berries. 1 1/2 cups of each berry. Mom washed and cut up the berries and I readied the other ingredients. We mixed the blue berries and red berries in separate bowls and added sugar, cornstarch and lemon juice.



Then it was time for the tricky part filling half the pie with each filling. We lined the pie tin with a Pillsbury roll out crust. I don't make pie crust, Martha. Then I held two spatulas in place over the middle section of the pie and mom poured in the first filling. Then I kept then in place and she poured in the second. I removed the spatulas and it worked. The blue stayed on one side and then red on the other. Now time to make the flag. I used my star cookie cutter to cut out stars for the other sheet of dough and we attached then to the outer crust and each other using an egg wash. Then Mom made strips using a pizza cutter and placed then across the pie. It looked so great. We then had to freeze the pie for an hour and then baked in for 50 minutes.



After the fire works we served it up with the ice cream. I had to microwave my piece because I cannot eat cold fruit pie, but everyone else enjoyed it as is. The verdict, delicious... lots of seeds.