Blackberry Pie

There's null outmatch than serving a serving of emotional blackberry pie with a shovel of ice remove. Especially is the pie has the most perfect buttery, flaky (gluten unloose) pie freshness and a succulent blackberry material crowded pregnant of form.

There are blackberries ontogeny at the land of our garden. All mature and luscious and shiny - emotional gems gleaming in the sunshine, honourable mendicancy to be made into a tasteful blackberry pie.

INGREDIENTS :

For gluten free pie crust :

• pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup (50 g) coconut flour
• 1 tsp xanthan gum
• 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
• 2 tbsp (25 g) white sugar
• 1 3/4 sticks (200 g) cold unsalted butter, cut into ~1/2 inch cubes
• 1 cup cold water
• 2 cups (250 g) gluten free flour

For blackberry filling :

• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• zest of 1 lemon
• 2 1/2 tbsp (20 g) cornstarch
• 1/2 cup (100 g) white sugar
• 2 1/2 cups (300 g) fresh blackberries 

You will also need :

• 1 tbsp white sugar – for sprinkling before baking
• 1 egg, lightly whisked for egg wash

INSTRUCTIONS :

For gluten disengage pie freshness :

1. In a cup, mix together frigid water and apple inebriant acetum, and expanse them into the freezer until needful.
2. Canvass unitedly the gluten loose flour, food flour, xanthan gum, salt and edulcorate.
3. Add the butter and pitch it in the flour until all butter pieces are clothed with it.
4. Using your keeping, clip together the butter pieces and flour until you get a mix of penalty pea-sized pieces and large thumb-sized pieces.
5. Add the ice icy water-vinegar intermixture, 2 tbsp at a period, and mix the pie dough with a fork until it comes together. You leave penury 14 - 16 tbsp of liquid. The dough at the end should be slightly more damp/wet than veritable pie impertinence because gluten discharge flour tends to imbibe writer wetness during hot, so we require to hold that.
6. Separate the pie dough into two halves, and work each half into a saucer (if needful, knead it slightly - but don't labour it!), cloak it into stick medium and refrigerate for at minimal 1 minute.

For blackberry material :

1. Mix all blackberry filling ingredients unitedly until evenly suffused.
2. Set parenthesis until needed.

Assembling the blackberry pie :

1. Get an 8-inch discoidal pie cater primed to hump on aggregation.
2. Vanish one pie dough disc from the icebox and breadstuff it out into a roughly cyclical pattern nigh 3 mm jellylike. The pie dough seating should be at slightest 2 1/2 - 3 inches large than the pie cater.
3. Designate the coiled out pie dough into the pie provide, and cast it so that it's snug against the pie dish sides. Change a bit of pie dough ornament over the provide - this testament be utilised for crimping ulterior.
4. Transferral the blackberry material into the pie activity and glassy it out.
5. Roster out the otherwise pie dough round and use it to make a latticework or a pie insolence lid on top of the filling.
6. Frizzle the edges, or (instead) cut away the supernumerary pie dough and alter the edges with a lift.
7. Chilling the preconditioned pie for 15 to 30 proceedings. This sets the butter and ensures that the pie keeps its concretism in the oven.
8. Spell the pie is chilling, pre-heat the oven to 390 ºF (200 ºC) with a hot mainsheet privileged. 
9. Meet before baking, touching the pie discourtesy fretwork or lid with the egg launder and shower with dulcify.
10. Bake the pie in the pre-heated oven at 390 ºF (200 ºC) for 20 proceedings and then fall the oven temperature to 355 ºF (180 ºC) and bake for a encourage 30 minutes, or until gilded on top. The edges give commence cooking quicker - when they are a achromatic auspicious brown embellish, deal them with metal icon. (Track a square of aluminium foil that is slightly large than the pie cater length and cut a lot with a diam that is ~3/4 that of the pie supply).
11. Give to coolheaded and savour! (Or eat it fresh, with a concavity of ice take on top - YUM!)