Blueberry Jar Pies (Tuesdays with Dorie)

For this week's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, Amy of South in Your Mouth selected….Double Crusted Blueberry Pie on pages 361-363 of Dorie's good book.

A friend forwarded Not Martha's pies in tiny canning jar entry with a note that said, "So cute. You should make these." Well, I tried and hers turned out much better!

The 4th of July cross-section!

The dough is made of lots of butter and shortening. Unseasoned breadcrumbs are placed in the bottom of pie shell. I chose to use Japanese Panko breadcrumbs (all I had in the house) and they worked out fine. I think my blueberries had way too much flour and sugar on them...but I ran out of blueberries after adding the dry ingredients (miscalculated that it was 2 1/2 PINTs (which is 5 cups) and not 2 1/2 cups of blueberries for the full batch! oops). I baked off four of them (so the crust was a little higher than should be) and froze one of the little 4 ounce jars to bake off later.

I definitely want to try the pie crust again...I don't know if my technique was correct. I don't know what next week's selection will be, but I'm looking forward to another fun recipe!