Strawberry Pie

🧂 Ingredients

• 5 cups strawberries

  sliced (about 1 1/4 lbs.)
• 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour

  (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
• 3 tbsp. salted butter

  softened and cut in slivers
• 2 pie shells

  for top and bottom layer

Instructions

• 1 Wash berries; trim stems.
• 2 Slice strawberries and put in a large mixing bowl.
• 3 Add sugar and flour and stir to combine.
• 4 Allow strawberries to juice down for about 20-30 minutes.
• 5 Stir once or twice during this period.
• 6 Meanwhile, roll out pie crust.
• 7 Place bottom crust in a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate.
• 8 Roll out top crust.
• 9 Sliver the butter and place in small dabs into the bottom crust.
• 10 Pour strawberry filling into bottom crust.
• 11 Layer with top crust. Layer with top crust.
• 12 Flute edges and cut slits in the top crust.
• 13 Bake at 300º for 2 to 2 ½ hours, or at 350° for about 1 to 1 ½ hours or until
  the juices bubble up thickly through the slits in the crust. 
• 14 Remove from oven and allow pie to cool completely before slicing and serving.
• 15 Refrigerate pie after about two days if you still have leftovers.

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