Florence White

Bilberry Pies

Haworth, Yorkshire, 1867

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

These pies we may be sure were enjoyed by the Brontë Sisters, at Haworth Parsonage. Dr. Fernie tells us they are a feature of Yorkshire ‘funeral teas’; they are first cousins to the famous American pies.

Ingredients

  • Bilberries 1½ pints
  • castor sugar 4 oz.
  • baked apples

Method

  1. Mix the bilberries with 2 or 3 oz. of sugar.
  2. Bake the apples in the usual manner, scrape out the pulp, sweeten it, and mix it with the bilberries.
  3. Grease a pie-plate, and sheet it with short or puff pastry.
  4. Fill it with the bi