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Cherry contrary pie (with sweet cherries)

Cherry contrary pie (with sweet cherries)

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I wanted to try out a new pie dough recipe today so I grabbed a bag of cherries at the supermarket. I pitted all of them before looking for a pie filling recipe; I didn't know that cherry pie is usually made with sour cherries, not sweet! So I did a little research and came up with this, that's where the "contrary" part comes in. I use an extra large pie dish that was my grandmother's but I am pretty sure this quantity can be stuffed into a standard 9" dish... Also I wanted to name the pie "Cherry , Cherry, Quite Cointreau-ey" i.e. 'how does your garden grow? ... with silver bells and cockle shells...' <br />By pre-cooking the juices this pie is not at all runny. If you like free-flowing juice you can skip steps 1 thru 3 and just whisk all ingredients [except the cherries and the dough] in a large bowl before adding the pitted cherries.