Sweet Cherry Pie

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2010, America's Test Kitchen TV

Cherry season is a mere blip on the summer-produce radar. For a juicy pie with the best fruity flavor, we’d have to look beyond the cherry tree.

SERVES 8 (Makes one 9-inch pie)

TIME 2 hours, plus 1 hour 25 minutes chilling, 20 minutes freezing, 2 hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To tame the cherries’ sweetness and get them to break down to the proper, juicy texture in our sweet cherry pie recipe, we cut back on the amount of sugar we were using and added some pureed plums. We cut the sweet cherries in half and toss...

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