Fresh Strawberry Pie

Name: Fresh Strawberry Pie
Yield: Serves 8 to 10 (Makes one 9-inch pie)
Cuisine: US & Canada
Ingredients: 4 pints (about 3 pounds), fresh strawberries, gently rinsed and dried, hulled (see note); 3/4 cup (5 1/4 ounces; 149 grams), 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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By Dawn Yanagihara

Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2011, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

The key to this dessert’s bright flavor—plump, uncooked berries—can also be its soupy downfall. But how do you firm up the filling without making it gluey and dull-tasting?

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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