In Connecticut the peach season and the blueberry season overlap for just enough time to make one pie each summer. However, since we had the abundance of South Carolina peaches and Charlie’s blueberries were also coming on like gangbusters, I had an opportunity to bake a pie just in time for the 4th of July. Here, in all its glory, is a red(pie plate), white(sugar dusting), and blue delight. Actually it was already half eaten by the time the holiday arrived!
If you have read me in past summers, you already know about the history of this luscious dessert. If you are new, however, the story is worth knowing. When Charlie and I were first dating I told him about an amazing peach/blueberry pie I had made in the summer of 1969 from a recipe torn from the local paper. I had, in the meantime(18 years) lost the clipping. A devoted pie eater, he got in touch with the newspaper’s food editor(back when they still had one) and set her on the hunt for the recipe. She found it, typed it out and sent it to him. It is that peach/blueberry stained paper I still use.
And since the blueberries continue to ripen and the local peaches will eventually be ready, he can look forward to an unprecedented second peach/blueberry pie this August.
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I remember making your recipe last summer and learning about your secret crust after the fact! 😂
Looks divine as always and it really tastes great!
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That not so secret crust!!
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Well, I have to say, it looks jolly tasty!!
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It looks delicious! And that was quite the romantic gesture by your husband to find that recipe for you. I can see why he was a keeper.
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Absolutely.
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I rarely eat fruit pies, but I would certainly love to try a slice of that one! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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If you ever cross the pond in July you can pull up a chair.
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Oh my goodness, I’d forgotten that Charlie tracked down the recipe from the newspaper. I think you will have many wonderful peach and blueberry pies. Yum!!
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The first one disappeared in a flash. Now on to the next ones.
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I love it!
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😎
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I love the history of your pie recipe.
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Me too.
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A great pie, Elizabeth, and a lovely story to tell the grandchildren.
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Thanks. Just read that your dad is ill. Is he better?
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I don’t think I’ve heard that story before, as it’s quite memorable. Kudos to Charlie for his perseverance and well done on the editor’s part to track the information down.
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Back in the day when the newsrooms were full!
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A lovely slice of life – and pie!
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Thanks.
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Looks delicious Elizabeth & now I’m hungry lol!
Bless you,
Jennifer
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So very loving of him. I have never baked a pie, I will.
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I haven’t read your previous posts including this. I turned out I haven’t been following but I did a few years ago.
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