Cherry Pie Receipe

Knouse Foods' Products & Recipes Help To Expand Menus & Incremental Sales

Peach Glen, PA – Knouse Foods, a grower-owned cooperative, highlights how foodservice professionals can increase profit potential with breakfast and snacking dayparts. According to The NPD Group, sixty percent of restaurant growth over the past five years has come from breakfast sales and the rest from snack periods. Knouse Foods’ products and recipes help chefs and operators easily expand their menu and boost incremental sales by capturing this rising trend.

According to a recent Packaged Facts report, 2010 breakfast sales reached $37 billion and are expected to continue to grow. Extending breakfast times and adding convenient and affordable offerings that customers can grab on the go are leading ways to improve traffic. Foodservice professionals can appeal to customers’ demands for more morning meal options and portable snacks with these Knouse Foods recipe ideas:

· Maple Sausage, Apple, and Sweet Onion Brunch Tart: Combining apple pie filling, sausage and onion with maple syrup makes this recipe versatile and delicious. Serve for breakfast or brunch.

· Blueberry Shortbread: A sweet treat; blueberry pie filling is layered between shortbread creating a simple snack, perfect to-go.

· Blue Eyes Wrap: This hearty breakfast option includes Lucky Leaf® Queso Blanco™ cheese sauce, blue cheese, ham, tomato, green pepper, bacon and scrambled eggs folded into a flour tortilla, completely portable.

· Cherry Turnover: Biscuits are a leading breakfast ingredient and this classic includes cherry pie filling, enhancing flavor and texture.

Additionally, chefs and operators can enhance existing breakfast items and introduce new snack foods with these ready-made Musselman’s® and Lucky Leaf® products:

· Queso Blanco™ Cheese Sauce: Add global appeal to your menu and meet demand for more ethnic-inspired breakfast items with this delicious cheese sauce.

· Fruit Pie Fillings: Enhance popular breakfast and snack items like pancakes, french toast, waffles, pastries and more.

· Healthy Picks® Apple Sauce: Made with antioxidant-rich "superfruits," it's an ideal way to meet customers' desires for more good-for-you options. Also counts as a daily fruit serving.

· Natural Apple Sauce Single Serve Cups: Great as a side dish or on its own, our portion-controlled apple sauce provides a wholesome, on the go option for adults and kids.

Sweet Cherry Pie Recipe | Simply Recipes

It's been a weird season for fruit here. The cold spring has put some crops off by a couple of weeks, meaning here it is in mid July and we can still get fresh, sweet cherries in the market. I apologize in advance if cherries are no longer available where you are. I just thought this pie was too good not to share. Most commercial cherry pies, and the cherry pies my grandmother used to make for us growing up, are made with sour cherries, which are bright, bright red, and almost impossible to find fresh. Although we have generous neighbors with cherry trees, we've never thought to make a pie with sweet cherries until now. My friend Maria served me a piece of her homemade pie made with sweet cherries, and wow, I couldn't wait to make one for myself. I think what makes it work is not adding too much sugar (the cherries are already naturally sweet), and including some almond extract. There's something magical about the flavors combination of cherries and almonds (see our cherry clafouti ). By the way, it helps to have a good cherry pitter . Those pits can be rather time consuming to remove.

1 Place the pitted cherries, sugar, almond extract, lemon juice and corn starch in a large bowl. Toss until the cherries are well coated with the sugar and other ingredients.

2 On a lightly floured clean surface, roll out the bottom crust. Form it into a 9 or 10-inch pie pan. Using kitchen scissors, trim the edges so that they extend beyond the edge of the pie pan by 1 inch. Place in the refrigerator while you roll out the top crust.

3 Roll out the top crust to about the same size as the bottom crust. If you want to make a lattice top (it's pretty and it's easy to do) follow these instructions for making a lattice pie crust . Place the filling in the pie plate. Dot with small dabs of butter. Cover with the top crust. Trim the edges. Crimp to seal the edges together. Score the top crust with cuts so that the steam can escape while the pie is cooking (unnecessary if you are making a lattice crust). Refrigerate for 30 minutes before cooking.

4 Optional egg wash In a small bowl, whisk the egg with a tablespoon of water or milk. Use a pastry brush to brush over the top crust. Sprinkle the top with coarse sugar.