strawberry pie

seeded from: itself
budded from: itself
shoutouts to: American Pie by Teresa Kennedy

 Hello!

I made strawberry pie today!  So, disclaimer, this is actually my second time making this pie in the last couple weeks.  The first time I made it I almost followed Kennedy's instructions to the letter but still thought it was too sweet, so I've tweaked it a little, using less sugar and adding in lemon juice.  Maybe I'll tweak it more at some later date.

 So because I made it in two different goes, the pictures look funky because they were taken at different times of the day (and also different days, obviously!).  Like the above and below pictures.  I really do think that the lemon cuts the sugar taste and makes the pie more fun (read: tangy). 

joy's pie crust

Everyone has their own pie crust recipe sometimes with various exotic ingredients, vodka, shortening, etc.  But this is my tried and true, although I guess not so tried and true since I keep messing with the wheat to white flour ratio.  So I'll give the starter one and then tell you what I've recently been happy with.

basic pie crust (for bottom + shell)*
ingredients
     2 cups flour
     12 Tbsp butter**
     1 tsp salt
     cold water (maybe 7 Tbsp?)

*if you want to just make a bottom shell use 3/4 of the ingredients
** however, if you have any wheat flour in your pie crust, you probably need less butter, so for just a bottom pie crust I use 8 Tbsp of butter.