FOUR & TWENTY BLACKBIRDS' CRANBERRY-SAGE PIE

Steps:

• 1. Make crust: In a bowl, combine flour, salt and sugar. Add butter and coat with flour mixture. Use a pastry blender or bench scraper to cut butter into flour, working quickly, until pea-size pieces form. 2. In a small bowl, combine water, vinegar and ice. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons water mixture over flour mixture. Use a bench scraper or spatula to fully incorporate into flour. Continue to incorporate water mixture, 1-2 tablespoons at a time, until dough just begins to form a ball. Use your hands to fully bring dough together into a ball. 3. Divide dough into two equal pieces. Shape each into a flat disc and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate at least 1 hour and preferably overnight. 4. On a lightly floured surface, roll out 1 dough disk, rotating periodically, into a circle 14 inches across and about ⅛-inch thick. Place dough in a 9-inch pie pan, pressing into sides, and refrigerate. 5. Make filling: Fill a heatproof bowl with dried cranberries. Pour boiling water into bowl, covering cranberries by about 1 inch. Meanwhile, in a food processor fitted with blade attachment, pulse sugars, sage, salt, arrowroot, cinnamon and allspice until fully combined. Transfer sugar mixture into a large bowl. 6. In the food processor, roughly chop 2 c fresh or frozen cranberries. Add chopped and remaining whole cranberries to sugar mixture. 7. Drain plumped dried cranberries in a colander. Add apple and plumped cranberries to sugar mixture and stir to combine. Stir in vanilla extract and egg until combined. 8. Make pie: Pour filling into refrigerated pie shell. Chill filled pie shell 10-15 minutes. Meanwhile, position oven racks in bottom and center positions and place a rimmed baking sheet on bottom rack. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.