Grape Pie

It's surprising to me how many people don't know what grape pie is, or have never had it, so I should probably begin by defining it. It should become fairly obvious as this blog post progresses. So you know those purple Concord grapes? Yeah...you take a lot of them, and you take them off the bunches. Then you squeeze the slippery insides out, and heat up the insides until they're smushy enough that you can strain them through a stainer to get rid of the seeds. Then you add the skins back in, as well as sugar and flour and anything else the filing calls for. Then you put the filing in the pie crusts and bake.

As you might have guessed (astute and intelligent you!), we recently made grape pies. Rachel, Annetta, and I went to the house of our friends, who have grapes growing on their property. We picked a lot of them, and then headed to our house, where Elizabeth joined us in the preparation.

First, we had to take them off the stem...

...and the squeeze the insides out.

A very cool pirate observed our work.


This is Annetta stirring the grape insides that are heating up.

Jessica made the crust.
And Elizabeth, Rachel, and I stirred and strained the grape insides.







...the finished pie crusts...


The streusel topping



Admiring the pies.


We ended up having our family plus 4 others joining us...we had more than enough pie. It was a fun day!