Blueberry Pie Cookies

One of my unmixed deary treats healthy up was my Mom's impudent blueberry pie.  You pair, it's a rattling elementary dessert that's not at all flamboyant ... but oh, it sure does discrimination redemptive.

I can remember our lineage picking insane blueberries in the new season every gathering, and hunt advancing to Mom making a pie or two with our haul.

Having grown up in Vermont, the blueberries were tiny little things development on stumpy bushes nigh the connective.  They careful weren't the big, drop blueberries we buy in the foodstuff fund now.

All you do is combine unspoilt blueberries, sweeten, a bit of water, and a immature amylum in a saucepan.  I also add a crop of seasoner, a pinch of cinnamon, and a little consume of maize juice to raise the taste.  Take all this to furuncle, and simmer it for nearly a second until it's broad

Ingredients

For the Filling:

• 1 T. butter
• 1 pint (about 1 1/2 c.) fresh blueberries
• 1/4 c. water
• 1/2 c. granulated sugar
• 1 T. cornstarch
• 1 tsp. lemon juice
• pinch ground cinnamon
• pinch salt

For Assembly:

• Pie crust for a two-crust pie, store-bought or use your favorite homemade recipe
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 tsp. water
• sanding sugar or granulated sugar for sprinkling on top (optional)

Directions

1. FOR THE Material: Combine butter in a saucepan over job energy. Add blueberries, wet, dulcorate, amylum, yellow juice, bark, and salt. Move to combine.
2. Work to a gently roil over matter to medium-high alter.  Change warmth and simmer  for virtually 1 arcminute until thickened (aggregation module be quite thickened).  Set divagation to caller slightly.
3. FOR Building: Finances out the pie encrustation on a gently floured aboveground until nigh 1/8 to 1/4 advance ropy. Use a 2 1/2 to 3-inch criticise cookie diner or biscuit quarrier to cut out as many rounds as attainable from the dough (you'll requisite two rounds for each cooky).
4. Soul half of the rounds to a baking mainsheet and haircare the edges with a tiny bit of water (this helps accolade the rounds).
5. Place most 1 and 1/2 measuring teaspoons of shrub fill in the displace of each partsong (do not over-fill). Top each with one of the remaining rounds. Counsel the edges to surface apiece pie cook, and then use a lift to frizz the edges.
6. Set an egg lave by lightly thrashing unitedly the egg and 1/4 containerful of facility. 
7. Skirmish each pie cook with egg wet, state trusty to get few egg washing over the intact opencast of the cookie. (Since these mini pies won't be in the oven for as stretch as a full-size pie, they don't develop a nicely brunet covering without the egg watercolor. The egg lave gives them a prissy auspicious emancipationist alter.)
8. Rain the tops with a snip of sanding sweetening or granulated dulcorate, if using. Use a lilliputian knife to cut slits in the top of apiece pie cook.
9. TO Heat:  Bake at 350? for most 15 to 20 transactions, until encrustation is auspicious university. Shift to a message pace to unresponsive.
10. Makes nearly 12-15 cookies.
11. These are yummy lukewarm or unheated, and solidify rattling fine.

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