Nothing says summer like a classic Saskatoon berry pie. You can have your blueberries, but I’ll take slightly tart Saskatoon berries instead any day of the week. This Saskatoon berry recipe is just like the one Grandma used to make and can be made with either fresh or frozen berries.

It just isn't summer without a slice of Saskatoon berry pie! This easy dessert recipe has a traditional crust, loads of saskatoon berries (or blueberries) filling, and just a hint of lemon. #saskatoonberries #pie #pierecipe #easydessert #summerdessert #berryrecipe #hardyfruits

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BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR PIE

Any Saskatoon berry recipe starts with a trip to the berry patch, sometime between the second and fourth week of July, depending on how warm or cold summer has been.

Saskatoon berries are next to impossible to find at supermarkets, and can only be obtained in the wild, at u-pick farms, and at farmer’s markets. If you have the time, I highly recommend picking at least one of your own pails. It will take an hour, but I swear the berries just taste better somehow.

Watch this video for some quick Saskatoon berry picking tips!

Once you get home, it’s time to clean the berries. If you pick clean as you pick them, cleaning Saskatoon berries goes quickly. Here’s how I do it!

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Finally, it’s time to make delicious pies, cakes, muffins, and other desserts! Saskatoon berries freeze well and are delicious in pancakes, with oatmeal, or in your yogurt.

Planning on making lots of pies to freeze for later? One ice cream pail of berries with make three small 8-inch pies or two large deep dish pies.

If you love Saskatoon berries as much as I do, you’ll want to bookmark my other Saskatoon berry recipes, as well!

Disclaimer: When I’m photographing pies, I do not make homemade crust. I’ve found that it’s too difficult to braid or make lattices with it, so I use store-bought butter pastry instead. If I’m making the pie for my friends and family and don’t need to get fancy, this is the recipe I use.

With all that out of the way, on to the recipe!

Saskatoon Berry Pie

Yield: 2 pies

Prep Time: 1 hour

Cook Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Total Time: 2 hours 15 minutes

Classic Saskatoon berry pie just like Grandma used to make.

Ingredients

Filling:
10 cups Saskatoon Berries
1 2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup all purpose flour
2 tbsp lemon juice
Crust:
4 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/3 cup shortening
8 to 10 tbsp cold water

Instructions

Clean Saskatoon berries and mix in sugar, flour, and lemon juice.

Crust: Mix flour and salt in a large bowl. Cut in shortening with a pastry blender, or your hands. When the mixture looks like a bunch of little pebbles, add cold water until combined. Let dough rest in the fridge for 10-30 minutes and roll out.

Cover the pie plate with dough and trim the edges that go over the pie plate with a knife.

Fill with 3-5 cups of Saskatoon Berries, depending how full you like your pie and how large of a pie plate you are using.

Cover the pie with another circle of dough, and poke holes all over the crust with a fork or knife. If you want to make a lattice crust as pictured, here's how. If you like the braided look, cut out twelve long strips of pie dough, and make four braids before following the instructions to make a lattice.

At this point, you can freeze the pie if desired.

If you are baking the pie immediately, brush on a bit of milk with a pastry brush (or your fingers) and sprinkle with a pinch or two of white sugar. This will help your crust get a nice brown to it.

Bake at 350 degrees for 60-75 minutes. The pie is done when The fruit is bubbling through and the crust is golden brown.

Did you end up with a bit of extra pie filling? Don’t throw it away! Make these super easy hand pies instead!

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Comments

Jilly

Your post is what I hate about some Pinterest bloggers. Tons of ads and scroll scroll scroll to get half a recipe. Scroll up and down and can’t find it. Less ads and related posts, and just post the actual recipe.

- Kristen Raney
  
  Hi Jilly, I'm sorry you had a bad experience. The ads help me pay my bills and buy groceries, so I'm sorry they are so annoying. However, is there another way I could make your experience better? Would you rather there be only a recipe and no story or notes? Or would it be better if I used a recipe plug-in so that you could just print it out or view it in a better format? It's just tricky as a blogger, because we really don't want to annoy our readers, but at the same time, we need enough content and keywords on the page so that people like you actually find our recipes (therefore getting traffic, which makes us enough money so that we can do this as a job). I hope my words don't sound sarcastic, I really am being sincere. Thanks for your feedback.
  
  - Nadine Cadieux
    
    A print out friendly recipe would be awesome, with a tab that would by pass the story. I, personally don't read many stories. I usually just want the recipe, but I realize that a blogger does it for their income, and that's cool. I did make your Saskatoon berry pie today. It turned out really nice. Thank you so much for the recipe. It is being printed as I write this. It is definitely my go to recipe from now on. Sincerely, Nadine
    
    - Kristen Raney
      
      Hi Nadine, I'm so glad you liked the recipe, and thank you for being kind!! I"m sorry this one doesn't have the card, I wrote it when I didn't even know about recipe cards. Thanks for letting me know and I'll make sure to make a recipe card for it!
      
CJ

I must be missing something?!? There is no end to this recipe? The last step rolling out the pie crust and letting it sit for 30 minutes... how long do i cook it? At what temperature? This is one of the only recipes i can find but the informations not there...

- Kristen Raney
  
  I am so incredibly sorry, thank you for posting this comment! I've fixed the recipe and added the rest of the directions. I don't know if I just got distracted or forgot to copy and paste some of them when I wrote it, but thank you for saying something!!
  
Sheila Westby

I'm confused. The ingredients say 10 cups of berries, but the instructions say 3 - 5 cups. 10 does seem loke a lot though.

- Kristen Raney
  
  It's 10 cups totally for either 2 or 3 pies, depending on the size of pie plates you're using and how full you like your pies to be. So you might make 3 pies with around 3 cups of berries each in them, or 2 pies with around 5 cups each of berries in them.
  
Shelley

Saskatoon pie! Great recipe from the prairies best berry. Been a great year for Saskatoons