I have a scary confession to make: it wasn’t until I made this recipe that I had ever eaten cherry pie. When Ryan, my husband, found out I had never had cherry pie, he gave me the most unbelievable look. The whole cherry pie experiment started when I saw that Rowley’s Red Barn was having a 20% off sale on cherries in February. We went to investigate. Fortunately, we snagged the last of their frozen tart cherries.
My second hurdle after I revived my now stupefied husband was to figure out how to make cherry pie from frozen sour cherries. Because I hadn’t eaten cherry pie, I had never made cherry pie. This was going to be an experiment with high risk, high reward possibilities. Not a novel situation for me given my research background. I spent hours on the internet trying to find a recipe that looked reliable. I landed on Presidential Cherry Pie on King Arthur Flour’s website. On a wing and a prayer, I made the recipe and now tart cherry pie is in contention with apple pie for being my favorite.
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