Fresh Plum-Ginger Pie with Whole-Wheat Lattice-Top Crust

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2019, America's Test Kitchen TV

The best fruit pie you've never made starts with fresh plums and whole-wheat flour.

SERVES 8

TIME 2½ hours, plus 7 hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a new type of summer fruit pie, we piled ginger-scented fresh plums into a buttery whole-wheat crust. Leaving the skins on the plums kept the slices intact during baking; we thickened the plum juice with cornstarch to make a translucent...

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