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Pies!

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 I've made a few pies with this year's berry harvests. I picked a bunch of my Romeo Sour cherries. They're underripe. I know. But the birds hadn't savaged them yet, and I can't net the entire tree. So I picked what I wasn't going to bag, mostly. The unbagged ones were gone 24 hours later along with a 1 of 3 of the bagged ones. So good call, I guess? 😞 Pitting them sucked. Get a hand pitter or robot machine. Or use your own homemade child slaves if you have some.  I added 1 cup sugar to the cherries and about 1/3c of whatever the no boil, freezer stable starch the Amish like is called. I forget and don't feel like looking. You could probably remove some of the cherry hot goo without thickening it and temper and add the 4 egg yolks (separated to make the meringue; 1 egg yolk per 1/4c sugar was what I did, you could go a little lighter on the sugar) and add less starch thickener.  Parbake the pie crust for like 15 minutes. I poke it with a fork and it's fi...