The Pie Recipes

Ingredients

• 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 6 oz. (1½ sticks) cold, unsalted butter, cut into pieces
• ¼ cup non-hydrogenated vegetable shortening
• ¼ cup ice cold water
• 3 cups fresh blackberries, lightly rinsed
• 2 cups ripe, fresh figs, rinsed, stemmed, roughly chopped
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
• ¼ teaspoon cardamom
• pinch of salt
• pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon lemon zest
• 2-3 tablespoons of honey, depending upon the sweetness of the figs
• 2 tablespoons fig butter (available at Trader Joes)
• 2 tablespoons cold, unsalted butter, cut into small pieces, to dot the fruit
• egg wash made of one egg yolk combined with 2 tablespoons heavy cream
• sanding sugar for sprinkling