Fresh Strawberry Pie ~ Foamheart

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Nice Going on the to do list.

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Are you sure add 2/3 cup water and ginger ale?

 

[foamheart]

Hey Foamy would you past on the recipe for the pickle beets. Would appreciate it.

Warren

Sorry somehow I missed this post.

Beet Pickles
3 qts. Fresh Beets, (small cooked and peeled) Cut to about the same size.
2 C Sugar
1/2 tsp. Whole Cloves
2 ea Cinnamon Sticks
1 tsp. Allspice, whole
1 1/2 tsp. Salt
3 1/2 C Vinegar
1 1/2 C Water

Check beets for hard spots after boiling, hard spots are no good.
Combine, boil, simmer 5 mins., remove the sticks.
Pack beets in jars, leaving 1/2" head space.
Ladle hot syrup over beets. Remove all bubbles, leave 1/4" head space.
Adjust 2 piece lids, and water process 30 mins.
Makes approx. 6 pints

Waren, I will make a friendly suggestion. Long ago when Mom taught me if I want more than my fair share, I could make my own, she bought me a book. Ball's Blue Book, It has all the recipes in it you had as a child and miss because grandma and/or your Mom are no longer around. Less than 10.00 at Barnes & Noble and a revised edition sold at Amazon.

Again forgive me for not responding sooner.

 

[foamheart]

Are you sure add 2/3 cup water and ginger ale?

Yeppers, any more ginger ale and it will not set-up. Ginger ale like fresh pineapple thwarts the jellos set up. But generally the reason is the strawberries are too ripe or you've had a lot of rain before picking. Generally that recipe makes a thick set up, but it does require a long set up.

 

[foamheart]

I'm at a loss. The She-Beast came back from a get away with her mom and sisters, bareing leftovers. Just in time, there was a 1 1/2 lb container of mixed strawberries and blueberries. Lights came on. Layer of blueberries then a layer of strawberries topped with whipped cream. Call it Red, White and Blueberry Pie !

Dewberries, Gooseberries, Blueberries and Blackberries = Cloud pie
A restaurant in W.S.W. of Alexandria La. is an unbelievable find called TUNK's Cyprus INN, restaurant and oyster bar on the water with boat ramps and fuel, etc.... Completely awesome food! Coonass atmosphere (that means good times for kids and the whole family including the Grumpy grandparents!). Dancing, bands, unbelievable foods, just my kind of place.

My first time there, I fell in love with it but it was blackberry season. They only make their Cloud pies with fresh picked berries. Simplest pies ever made, but I can't duplicate thiers. I was so Impressed I bought all they had in the kitchen that night, they made me wait till ever everyone had been served.

Nothing but, homemade sweetened whipped cream with I am sure a gelatin stabilizer with whole berries folded gently into mixture, then they heaped it up in a pie crust. They only deal with the best berries at the height of the season.

BTW I saved one each of the pies then for Mom and Dad, and I made a whole new sales area of customers the next day before the whipped cream started getting runny!

 

[mosparky]

over ripe berries might have been the prob. They were just on the verge of getting mushy.