gurdymonkey | Recipe: Cranberry tart thing

It's kind of a failure, but still very delicious.

2 cups frozen cranberries.

2 apples (I used Granny Smith)

2 tbsb. sugar

Enough sherry to soak the cranberries in, probably about 1 - 1 1/2 cups.

1 cup brown sugar.

Soak cranberries in sherry with granulated sugar stirred into it.

Blind bake your favorite pie crust recipe or a store bought crust, let cool.

Slice apples and line the bottom of the pie crust with them. Strain the sherry out of the cranberries and layer the berries over the apples. Crumble the brown sugar over the top of the fruit.

Look at the sherry/sugar mixture you just drained into a bowl. Look back at the pie. Look at the sherry/sugar mixture. Shrug. Pour it over the top of the pie.*

Bake for 20 minutes in pre-heated 375F oven, then turn down to 350F and give it another 40 minutes. Turn off oven and let cool for 1/2 hour as the oven cools, then take it out and let it cool further.

*Maybe I should not have poured ALL the sherry back into the pie because it made it really wet and it would not come out of the pie dish in one neat slice. However, the sherried cranberry flavor is amazing and this is delicious even if it fell apart. A bit of vanilla ice cream on the side is nice.

Further experimentation is clearly needed. Maybe cooking the berries in the sherry and reducing the liquid before it goes into the pie.... I don't know. I do know there is half a bag of frozen berries and a third of a bottle of sherry left, so maybe we'll try this again at some point.

EDIT: 24 hours later, it *doesn't* fall apart when you try to serve it. Maybe it just needed more time to set. Still yummy.