Fresh Strawberry Pie

Name: Fresh Strawberry Pie
Yield: Serves 8 to 10 (Makes one 9-inch pie)
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 pints (about 3 pounds), fresh strawberries, gently rinsed and dried, hulled (see note); 3/4 cup (5 1/4 ounces), sugar; 2 tablespoons, cornstarch; 1 1/2 teaspoons, Sure-Jell for low-sugar recipes (see note); Pinch, table salt, generous amount; 1 tablespoon, juice from 1 lemon; 1 , recipe; 1 cup, cold heavy cream; 1 tablespoon, sugar

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2011

Desserts or Baked Goods

American

Fruit

Dessert Pies

SERVES8 to 10 (Makes one 9-inch pie)

TIME35 minutes, plus 2 hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We knew that the success of our Fresh Strawberry Pie recipe hinged on getting the thickener just right. When none of the thickeners that we tried worked on their own, we decided to use a combination of two: pectin (in the form of a homemade...

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