Berry best fried pies

10 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
½ cup Water
2 cups Fresh OR frozen blueberries
2 cups All-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon Baking soda
¼ teaspoon Salt
½ cup Vegetable oil
⅓ cup Buttermilk
Cooking oil for frying

Directions

DOUGH

In a saucepan, combine sugar, cornstarch and water; add berries. Cook and stir over medium heat until the mixture comes to a boil. Cook and stir for 2 minutes; set aside to cool. Combine flour, baking soda and salt. Combine oil and buttermilk; stir into dry ingredients until mixture forms a ball.

Roll on a floured board to ⅛-in thickness; cut into ten (10) 4-½ inch circles. Place 1 Tbps blueberry filling on each circle. Fold over; seal edges with a fork. In a skillet over medium heat, fry pies in ¼ to ½ inch hot oil until golden brown, about 1½ minutes per side. Drain on paper towels.

YIELD: 10 servings

Recipe by: Sharon Garrison (ToH Oct/Nov 96) Posted to EAT-L Digest by "Iris E. Dunaway" <hister@...> on Sep 7, 1997

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