Pies and Tarts [183] berries with flour, pour them into the pastry-lined pan, and sprinkle the sugar over them. Salt and lemon juice may be added. Roll out remaining pastry, cover the pie, trim pastry, and fold under the top. Pinch edges firmly and prick with a fork. Bake in a 450° F. oven for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350° F. and bake for 35 minutes longer. Serve warm or cold, with or without vanilla ice cream. Makes 6 to 8 servings. Open Blueberry Pie The trick when baking on a sailboat is to level with a spoon. Gravity pulls bread loaves into one-sided shapes and makes blueberry pie filling run out. An inverted kitchen spoon placed under the pan to level it is the seaman’s answer. Place it under the pan to make it level. 1 recipe Pastry for 1-crust Pies (p. 173) 4 cups fresh blueberries 3/4 cup sugar 2 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch Pinch of salt 1 cup water, or half water and half fruit juice*(Apple juice!) 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon lemon juice Prepare pastry and use it to line a 9-inch pie pan: Pinch edge attractively and bake according to directions on page 173. Wash and pick over berries and let them drain in a colander. Stir sugar, cornstarch, salt and water in a large saucepan over low heat; add 1 cup of the berries and stir until thickened, about 7 minutes. Add butter and lemon juice and stir until butter is melted. Stir remaining fresh berries into the mixture and cook for 1 minute longer. Take from heat and cool. When cold pour into baked pie shell and serve with soft ice cream. Makes 4 to 6 servings. *If blueberries are fresh picked, use only water (without the fruit juice) to retain berry flavor. If purchased blueberries are used, substitute grape juice, orange juice or any preferred fruit juice for half of the water. The reason for this is that wild berries freshly picked are much more flavorful than the cultivated berries that may have been picked some time before. August 1991 Echo tried this blueberry filling in her little tarts and it is exquisite! One Open Top Blueberry "Pie" (Mama calls a tart shell wrong like no pretty) 2 C berries partially thawed & smashed instead of blueberries making 2X batch blueberry pie. Held 4 C. fresh additional strawberries to add when cold going into shell.