It helps to soften the blackberries and it is a contribution to the entire pie. The best thing I have found in my own experience is to take your berries and slice them in half then create a caramelized 'sauce' from added sugar for taste and consistency. To caramelize you would take your sliced berries and put them in a shallow sauce pan adding sugar to thicken the juice and flavor from the berries. Make sure you put it on the lowest setting possible for heat as to not scold the berries nor sauce. Hope it helps. If all else fails, a good can of pie filling is a safe fail system :)
noo , you fill it with the blueberries then put the crust over top and bake it like that
Yes
You must bake the bottom crust as per recipe or pie crust directions before adding the pie filling.
Cream pies are about the only ones you bake before filling. Any filling that does not need to be baked also. Berry pies you make the filling before putting it in the pie, but you also bake it after you fill it.
No
Generally pie filling is room temperature when placed in the pie crust. In many cases, the crust is partially baked, then the room temperature filling is added. If one places hot filling in an unbaked crust, the filling could become over-cooked before the crust has finished baking.
If the pie filling is very liquid then the crust needs a slight precooking prior to filling and continue to bake (Pecan Pie). If the filling is to be refrigerated (Lemon Meringue or Chocolate Creme or Banana Creme) the crust must be entirely prebaked before filling.
No, you do not pre bake the crust.
Don't prick holes in the crust before baking. You only do this when you prebake the pie shell for a cream pie. Any pie that you bake with the filling in it should have a solid crust just the way it is rolled out.
Bake blind is the process of baking a pie crust or other pastry without the filling. For instance, if the filling could not to be cooked: a cream filling, for example, the filling is put into the empty baked case afterwards.
no
Meringue topping adheres better when the lemon filling is still hot. If your lemon topping is cold when you apply the meringue, the two layers are more likely to separate after the pie is cooked and cooled.A different answer:Numerous recipes call for cooling the lemon filling BEFORE putting it into the pie crust, in which case it would be cool, but not chilled, when the meringue is applied.
yes