/ck/ - Food & Cooking

slav here, very little experience with making PIES. but since blueberries are in season i figured i'd give it a shot once again.

anyway, as i was looking at recipes a couple of questions popped up:

1) previously i've made apple pie and pecan pie. in those recipes you had to pre-bake the bottom crust with something weighing it down because it might get soggy otherwise or something. but in the few blueberry pie recipes i saw, that wasn't done. can i really skip this step this time
2) how can i "season" the blueberry filling? apple pie had you using cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves. for blueberries the couple of recipes i saw had you using lemon juice and zest (seems like a good idea) and cinnamon (doesn't seem like a good idea). does cinnamon really go with blueberries? and if not, what kinds of spices could i use? i was thinking maybe sumac since it's bright and zesty or cardamom but idk nobody seems to do that.