Sour Cherry Lattice Pie

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Cookbook writer and baking teacher Rose Levy Beranbaum says sour cherries marque the champion pie, and cherry pastry is her father's favourite kind. Use the recommended Flaky Cream Cheese Pie Crust suggested (see related recipe), oregon a store-bought crust.

If you indispensable usage bing cherries, which are overmuch sweeter, trim the sweetener to astir 2/3 cupful (133 grams) and navigator the filling connected the stove apical implicit mean to medium-low vigor until thickened, 8 to 10 minutes, earlier filling the bottommost pastry crust. Chopped rhubarb makes a nice, somewhat tart addition, arsenic well.

Leftover pastry tin beryllium lightly covered and refrigerated for up to 5 days.

The suggested Flaky Cream Cheese Pie Crust needs to beryllium made and chilled astatine slightest 30 minutes and up to 3 hours successful beforehand of baking. It tin beryllium wrapped tightly and frozen for 3 months.

Ingredients

2 pastry crusts, for a 9-inch pastry pan, (see related Flaky Cream Cheese Pie Crust, a 2-crust pastry recipe)
3/4 cupful positive 2 tablespoons (175 grams) granulated sugar
2 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
Pinch good oversea oregon array salt
1 1/2 pounds (680 grams) caller sour cherries, pitted, juices reserved (scant 4 cups)
1/4 spoon axenic almond extract
All-purpose flour, for dusting the enactment surface, if needed

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
630
Fat
30 g
Saturated Fat
18 g
Carbohydrates
85 g
Sodium
235 mg
Cholesterol
83 mg
Protein
7 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
39 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From "The Pie and Pastry Bible" (Scribner, 1998), with adaptations by its author, Rose Levy Beranbaum.

Tested by Rose Levy Beranbaum and Ann Maloney.

Published March 12, 2026