Mom's Blueberry Crumb Pie

Step 16 Crumbs

Mix together the ingredients listed in Step 1 for the crumbs. With your pastry blender, mix well until you can no longer see any chunks of butter and small crumbs have formed. It helps if you pound the mixture with the pastry blender.

Comments

[nathan42100]

If you don't have a pastry blender, you can stick it into a food processor and pulse it a few times. If you make it too buttery by accident, don't worry. Just form it into a dough and break it into little pieces when you top the pie with it. Works just as well. When you use the pastry blender or food processor, make sure the butter is COLD. otherwise it is more likely to form a dough.

[kaykaren]

If you don't have a pastry blender OR a food processor, you can grab two table knives & use them scissor-like to do the same thing. I've seen adept cooks use them both in one hand, but I've always had really good results putting a knive in each hand and sort of crossing them past each other, dragging the fat (butter) through the flour/sugar/whatever dry ingredients... it really doesn't take long, either.

GREAT looking pie! I just wish it was cool enough in my part of New Mexico to grow blueberries.