Fried Sweet Cherry Pies

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The exterior of these tidy manus pies resembles a carnival funnel cake, tangy, airy and sweet. Inside, caller cherries harvester with dried to amplify the spirit portion adding indispensable pectin to stiffen up the filling.

Cool that filling good and fto it steadfast up earlier scooping it into the dough circles. The dough is miraculous, initially squishy and unruly, but chilled for a fewer hours it emerges silky and casual to handle. I’m partial to a lard-based dough, but if you are little inclined, a good-quality shortening fits the bill. Stretch the dough astir the filling truthful the pies volition beryllium plump and satisfying. Serve these treats warm.

You’ll person much occurrence with this look with an instant-read thermometer to show the somesthesia of the oil. You’ll request a 4-inch-round cutter, or. usage a tiny sheet arsenic a template.

The dough needs to beryllium refrigerated astatine slightest 4 hours, and up to 2 days successful advance, oregon tin beryllium frozen for up to a month. Defrost overnight successful the refrigerator. The filling tin beryllium refrigerated up to 1 week successful advance. The pies are champion erstwhile served close away.

From Bring It! columnist and cookbook writer Cathy Barrow.

Ingredients

From Bring It! columnist and cookbook writer Cathy Barrow.

Tested by Molly Madigan Pisula.