Blueberry Cream Hand Pies

I never outgrew this tactile and tasty treat, put in my hand as I was shooed out the door so I wouldn’t disrupt the clockwork precision of my mother’s kitchen. The recipe makes a traditional—and killer—blueberry pie (see the variation). Just soften the cream cheese and spread it on the bottom of the pie crust before you pour in the filling.

What’s with the booze, you say? As I touched on in the introduction, in the Deep South, the addition of