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A mixed berry pie covered with lemon custard and sugared Valentine shaped bits of pie crust and whipping cream..
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Mixed Berry Pie with Lemon Custard

A not too sweet dessert for a special occasion like Valentine's Day
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, Canadian
Keyword Valentine's Dessert
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours
Servings 6

Ingredients

Pie Crust Recipe

  • 5 ½ cups flour
  • 2 tsp walt
  • 1 pound large
  • 1 tsp fresh grated lemon zest
  • 1 tbsp vinegar
  • 1 beaten egg
  • water
  • Sprinkle icing sugar

Bumbleberry Filling

  • 5 cups blueberries, strawberries, and blackberries. Any mixture of the three berries totaling 5 cups.
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 2 tbsp minute tapioca

Lemon Custard

  • 4 egg yolks
  • 4 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch
  • 1 lemon zested
  • 2 cups milk

Instructions

Pie Crust Recipe

  • This pie crust recipe makes enough pie crust for 3 pies. Its my favorite and the remaining dough can be frozen.
  • Mix the flour, salt and lemon in a large bowl.  Add and cut in the lard until pea-sized bits form. 
  • Place an egg and vinegar in a 1 cup size measuring cup.  Fill with very cold water and mix.  Sprinkle the egg mixture over the flour mixture and gather it into a ball of dough.
  • Roll out your single pie crust first, line your pie pan with the crust and set aside.
  • Roll out a second bit of pie dough. Using a small heart-shaped cutter, cut out a couple dozen heart shapes. 
  • Layer the hearts around the outside of the pie, brush with a little milk and sprinkle with sugar.
    Pie crust cut in heart shapes for making Valentines dessert there is also a pie with Valentine heart shapes all around the crust.

Mixed Berry Pie Filling

  • Place the berries and sugar into a medium saucepan and cook over medium heat until warm. 
  • Sprinkle with the tapioca and cook until thick, stirring occasionally.  Cook for about ten minutes total.
  • Fill the pie shell with the bumbleberry filling until 2/3 full.   Note:  My pie pan is large, you may find that there is extra bumbleberry filling left over.   (If so it makes a great topping for ice cream or pancakes.) Set your pie aside to cool.
    A baked mixed berry pie with Valentine shapes encircling the crust.

Lemon Custard Topping

  • Take a small bowl and mix together the sugar, cornstarch, and four egg yolks.
  • In a medium heavy bottom saucepan, add  2 cups of milk and the lemon zest (I used the remaining 2/3 of the zest of a lemon).
    Mixing lemon custard on top of the stove.