Best Cherry Pie

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 to 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

  depending on how tart the cherries
• dash salt
• 1/3 cup cherry juice
• 1/4 tsp. red food coloring
• 6-8 drops almond extract

  I use about a teaspoon
• 29 oz. can pitted tart red cherries

  drained, reserving 1/3 cup cherry juice for recipe (two 14.5-ounce cans)
• 3 heaping tablespoonfuls UNBLEACHED flour
• 1 tbsp. unsalted butter

  slivered
• 1 recipe plain pastry

Instructions

• 1 Combine sugar, flour & salt.
• 2 Stir in butter, then cherry juice, food coloring and almond extract.
• 3 Add cherries and let stand while making pastry.
• 4 (This helps the flavors absorb more readily).
• 5 Pour cherry filling into pastry shell.
• 6 Cover immediately with a lattice top crust.
• 7 Bake at 300° for about 1 ½ hours until the juice starts bubbling up quite thick
  between the layers of the lattice crust.
• 8 If necessary tent pie with foil to prevent browning.

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