Peach Pie Recipe

Eat a perfect peach under the summer sun and youll experience the fruit at its messy, dripping, sugar-bright best. Rinse your chin and understand that no melon, apricot or blackberry can compete. But how often does this happen? For most of us, a great and truly perfect peach is a rare event. We can expect but one or two a season, for all our trying. Enter the pie. A peach pie can elevate good peaches to excellence and great ones to the sublime. Even a peach pie made with frozen fruit is a terrific thing. The addition of sugar helps; so, too, do a dash of lemon juice and a light sprinkle of nutmeg, which offers a slight bitterness to offset the sweet. Add a crown of vanilla ice cream for a perfect diner-style à la mode effect.

Perfect Peach Pie

After a few additional years of testing, this is now a perfected peach pie recipe. As the pie bakes, expect a messy, bubbly, and juicy filling. As the pie cools, the filling sets into a soft, yet sliceable filling. For best success, follow all of my tips above and watch the video tutorial below.

Prep: 3h

Total: 7h

Yield: 8

Ingredients:

• Homemade Pie Crust or All Butter Pie Crust (both recipes make 2 crusts, 1 for bottom and 1 for top)
• 3 pounds (1.4kg) peaches (about 8–9 medium)*
• 2/3 cup (135g) granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup (63g) all-purpose flour OR 1/4 cup instant tapioca
• 1 Tablespoon (15ml) fresh lemon juice
• 1–2 teaspoons peeled minced fresh ginger, optional
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 Tablespoons (30g) cold unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
• egg wash: 1 large egg beaten with 1 Tablespoon (15ml) milk
• optional: coarse sugar for sprinkling on crust

Instruction:

1. Prepare either pie crust recipe through step 5.
2. Peel the peaches and then cut into 1-inch chunks. You need about 8 cups of peach chunks, which is around 1.4kg. You can peel and cut the peaches up to 1–2 days ahead of time. Cover and refrigerate until ready to make the filling.
3. In a large bowl, stir the peach chunks, granulated sugar, flour, lemon juice, ginger, and cinnamon together until thoroughly combined. Set filling in the refrigerator while you roll out the dough. No need to cover it.
4. Adjust the oven rack to the lower third position and preheat to 425°F (218°C). Place baking sheet on the bottom oven rack to catch any peach juices.
5. On a floured work surface, roll out one of the discs of chilled dough (keep the other one in the refrigerator). Turn the dough about a quarter turn after every few rolls until you have a circle 12 inches in diameter. Carefully place the dough into a 9×2-inch round pie dish. Tuck it in with your fingers, making sure it is smooth. Pour and spread filling evenly into pie dish. Dot the pieces of butter on top of the filling. Set aside at room temperature or in the refrigerator as you assemble the top pie crust.
6. Remove the other disc of chilled pie dough from the refrigerator. Roll the dough into a circle that is 12 inches diameter. Using a pastry wheel, sharp knife, or pizza cutter, cut strips of dough; in the pictured pie, I cut 6 2-inch-wide strips. Carefully thread the strips over and under one another, pulling back strips as necessary to weave. (Here’s a lattice pie crust tutorial if you need visuals.) To seal the edges, use a small paring knife or kitchen shears to trim excess dough that extends more than 1.5–2 inches over the edge. Fold bottom pie dough edges back over and press/meld into the lattice edges to form a smooth, neat rim. Flute or crimp the edges with a fork.
7. Lightly brush the top of the pie crust with the egg wash. Sprinkle the top with coarse sugar, if using.
8. Bake the pie on the center rack at 425°F for 20 minutes; then, keeping the pie in the oven, reduce the oven temperature down to 375° (190°C). Place a pie crust shield (see Note for homemade shield) on the edges to prevent them from over-browning. Continue baking the pie until the filling’s juices are bubbling everywhere, including in the center, 45–50 more minutes. This sounds like a long time, but under-baking the pie means a soupy, paste-like filling. If you want to be precise, the internal temperature of the filling taken with an instant read thermometer should be around 200°F (93°C) when done. Tip: If needed towards the end of bake time, remove the pie crust shield and tent an entire piece of foil on top of the pie if the top looks like it’s getting too brown.
9. Remove pie from the oven, place on a cooling rack, and cool for at least 4 hours before slicing and serving. Filling will be too juicy if the pie is warm when you slice it.
10. Cover leftovers tightly and store in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

Peach Pie

A homemade Peach Pie is one of the summer’s sweetest traditions. When peaches are in season, you likely have a whole bushel ready to be sliced for a juicy snack, added to yogurts and parfaits or included in a bowl of other fresh fruit. There are so many wonderful ways to enjoy peaches, but we think this easy Peach Pie recipe is one of the best. You need just 6 ingredients, 25 minutes of prep time and frozen Pillsbury™ Deep Dish Pie Crusts to make this recipe for Peach Pie. Soon you’ll be serving up golden slices of Peach Pie with a scoop of ice cream on top.

Prep: 25min

Total: 3h10min

Yield: 8

Serving Size: 1 Serving

Nutrition Facts: calories 310 , Carbohydrate 52 g, Cholesterol 5 mg, Fat 2 , Fiber 1 g, Protein 3 g, Saturated Fat 4 g, servingSize 1 Serving, Sodium 170 mg, Sugar 25 g, Trans Fat 0 g

Ingredients:

• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup Gold Medal™ All-Purpose Flour
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 5 to 5 1/2 cups sliced peeled fresh peaches (5 to 6 medium)
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 package (12 oz) frozen Pillsbury™ Deep Dish Pie Crusts (2 Count)

Instruction:

1. Place cookie sheet on oven rack. Heat oven to 400°F.
2. In large bowl, mix sugar, flour and cinnamon. Stir in peaches and lemon juice. Spoon into frozen crust. While second crust is still in pan and frozen, remove crimp with sharp knife. Remove crust from pan and center frozen crust upside down on top of filled pie. Let thaw 10 minutes; crimp edges together. Cut 2 or 3 slits in top crust. Cover edge of crust with pie shield or foil strips.
3. Bake on cookie sheet about 45 minutes or until crust is golden brown and juice is thick and bubbly. Cover entire top of pie loosely with foil if crust is getting too brown. Cool on cooling rack at least 2 hours.

Peach Pie

I acquired this delicious peach pie filling recipe some 40 years ago, when my husband and I first moved to southern Iowa and had peach trees growing in our backyard. It’s been a family favorite since then and always brings back memories of both summer and those happy early years. — June Mueller, Sioux City, Iowa

Prep: 35min

Total: 01h25min

Yield: 8 servings.

Nutrition Facts: calories 380 calories, Fat 16g fat (7g saturated fat), Cholesterol 14mg cholesterol, Sodium 254mg sodium, Carbohydrate 59g carbohydrate (29g sugars, Fiber 2g fiber), Protein 3g protein.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 4-1/2 cups sliced peeled peaches
• Dough for double-crust pie
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon butter
• Vanilla ice cream, optional

Instruction:

In a large bowl, combine sugars; add peaches and toss gently. Cover and let stand for 1 hour. On a lightly floured surface, roll one half of dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate or iron skillet.Trim even with rim. Refrigerate while preparing filling. , Preheat oven to 400°. Drain peaches, reserving juice. In a small saucepan, combine cornstarch, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt; gradually stir in reserved juice. Bring to a boil; cook and stir until thickened, about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; stir in lemon juice and butter. Gently fold in peaches. Pour into crust. , Roll remaining dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; cut into 1-1/2-in.-wide strips. Arrange over filling in a lattice pattern. Trim and seal strips to edge of bottom crust; flute edge. Cover edge loosely with foil. Bake 40 minutes; remove foil. Bake until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly, 10-20 minutes longer. Cool on a wire rack. If desired, serve with vanilla ice cream.

Peach Pie