Freezers Revolutionize Pie Storage

Home food freezers have practically banished seasons for pies—like pumpkin in autumn, cherry at cherry-picking time and dewberry and boysenberry when the berries are ripe in the patch. Even the wild fruits—blueberries, blackberries, huckleberries, raspberries, elderberries, mulberries and the West’s Service berries (pronounced sarvis)—are frozen when ripe for year-round pie baking. Colorado mountain ranchwomen often complain that bears get more than their share of the raspberry crop, Minnesota women that bears are too fond of blueberries. So we still have our frontiers where wild animals interfere with pie baking!