For a practical look at all the options, see our Fruit Pie Thickeners Guide. Drain the cans of cherries, reserving 2/3 cup of water from one of them. Set top crust aside, covered. King Arthur Baking Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Cook, stirring constantly until it thickens/gels for 2-3 minutes. Add comma separated list of ingredients to exclude from recipe. To tame the cherries’ sweetness and get them to break down to the proper, juicy texture in our sweet cherry pie recipe, we cut back on the amount of sugar we were using and added some pureed plums. Soak the sago in 1 cup of the water in a large mixing bowl for an hour, the sago should expand and become soft. Place thawed, undrained cherries with juice concentrate, water and almond extract in a bowl and sprinkle with tapioca. To see how other types of tapioca stack up, we weighed tapioca flour and ground pearl tapioca to match the 19-gram weight of 2 tablespoons of Minute tapioca and used them in our Sweet Cherry Pie. If you're using tapioca, let the filling sit for 20 minutes before using it to fill the pie shell. Just superb! The best. Just moved to a home with cherry trees in the backyard, so I had buckets of fresh cherries and no idea how to use them. A homemade cherry pie filling in a buttery pie crust. I found that I had to use an extra cup of the frozen cherries and I did drain out the juice from thawing. Prepare pie crust and line a pie plate. [CDATA[/* >