Instructions: Meanwhile, combine the 2 cups of flour and the salt in a food processor; cut in the butter until the mixture resembles a coarse meal. Add the yeast mixture and the yolks. Process just until the mixture forms a ball. Turn the dough onto a floured surface. Knead the dough until supple and an indention with a finger springs back, 3 to 5 minutes. Sprinkle the dough with flour. Let rest for 10 minutes. Roll out the dough to fit a 9 inch pie plate. Transfer the dough to the
plate and flute the edges.

Heat the oven to 450 degrees.

Pit the cherries, reserving the juice. Place half of the cherries in the shell and sprinkle them with half of the sugar and add the cherry juice. Add the rest of the cherries and top with the remaining sugar.

Bake the pie until the cherries darken, the juice is bubbling and the crust is
browned, 30 to 35 minutes. Serve hot. The juices will run from the pie and hot
cherries will "burst" when you serve it. De Pomiane advises sprinkling more
sugar to taste on top.

NOTES : No voice from the kitchen was more trusted or beloved in 1960s Europe than that of Edouard de Pomiane. Radio broadcasts from Paris found their way into English kitchens in the delightful 1961 book "Cooking with Pomiane." In the book, cherry pies were a recurring theme, every recipe offered with the instruction that the cherries be pitted with "a new metal hairpin." But
the tart that de Pomiane evoked most richly was a country tart, handed down from the 1860s. This dish was probably conceived with sour cherries, Montmorency types or Morellos in mind, but it bakes fine with sweet ones, and the flowing juices demand a large dollop of vanilla ice cream or fresh cream. (Very sweet cherries will require less sugar, tart ones a bit more.) De Pomiane describes having discovered the recipe from a lady who made tarts whenever she baked bread and who made the crust by cutting bread dough with lard. He recommended getting a half-pound of fresh dough from a local baker and kneading in 3 ounces of butter. We asked Edon Waycott to supply this recipe for a leavened pie shell fit to absorb the flowing cherry juices.

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