Mix murder with a handful of suspects and a pinch of possible motives, and you have the perfect recipe for a delicious culinary cozy mystery! Join small-town pie-shop owner Valentine Harris and her and amateur sleuthing club on a delicious murder mystery while enjoying “Peach-Blueberry Ginger Pie” from author Karen Rose Smith’s Bleeding Tarts, the second book in her Pie Town Mystery series. Set in Northern California, the story follows Valerie as she searches for a cunning killer after stumbling upon a corpse while visiting a faux ghost town on the edge of Silicon Valley.
PEACH-BLUEBERRY GINGER PIE
Ingredients:
1 package premade pie dough (2 rounds), chilled
A small handful of flour (for rolling out the lattice top)
4 C peaches, peeled and sliced into ¼” wedges (about six medium peaches)
1¼ C blueberries
⅓ C + 2 tsp granulated sugar
¼ C cornstarch
1 T shredded fresh ginger
¼ tsp salt
1½ tsp lemon juice
1 T heavy cream
- Turn up the heat to 375 degrees.
- Coax one piecrust along the smooth bottom of a 9″ pie tin and pinch the dough along the top edge of the pan.
- Snuggle parchment paper into the bottom of the piecrust and fill the tin to the brim with dried rice or beans.
- Bake until a sensuous golden brown, approximately 20–30 minutes.
- Carefully remove from the oven and turn the heat down to a balmy 350 degrees.
- Tenderly mix blueberries, peaches, 1/3 C sugar, cornstarch, ginger, salt, and lemon in a generously sized bowl.
- Remove the beans and rice from the baked piecrust. Gently tumble the fruit ménage into the tin.
- Unroll the second piecrust, and with a pizza cutter or sharp knife, cut the dough into ten lattice strips, approximately ¾” to 1″ in width.
- Lay five lattice strips vertically across the top of the pie.
- Place the other five strips horizontally across the first.
- Snip any excess dough or press it into the piecrust. Brush the strips with the cream and drizzle with the last two tsp sugar.
- Bake approximately 60 to 90 minutes, until the filling is thick and bubbling.
About Kirsten Weiss:
Based in San Mateo, CA, Kirsten Weiss writes genre-blending novels: urban fantasy/mystery, steampunk/suspense, and cozy mysteries. The mix just makes things more fun! Kirsten has never met a dessert she didn’t like, and her guilty pleasures are watch-ing Ghost Whisperer reruns and drinking red wine.
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