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Prepare: Cube butter into 1cm pieces, and place it in a bowl in the freezer. I find that this allows the butter to get very cold before you work with it. Put the 3 tbsp apple cider vinegar into cold water, and place this into the freezer as well. Don't worry about it freezing- you will use it before it can freeze. Using a coffee grinder or spice grinder, grind up 3-4 whole star anise pieces. Set aside.
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Combine flour, salt, sugar, and star anise.
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Take cold butter, and using a pastry cutter, fork, or fingers, work quickly and cut butter into dry ingredients. Pea size chunks will remain, and that's completely fine.
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Take out cider vinegar / water mixture. Using tablespoons at a time, mix it into dry ingredients until just combined. Do not overmix or knead. Add the mixture gradually - you can always add more water, but you can't take it out. The resulting dough should stick together but not be moist.
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Separate dough into two halves. Shape into disks and wrap with plastic wrap. Place in fridge. Let dough rest for at least 1 hour.
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Butter 9? pie dish. On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough until it is about 2? larger than your pie dish. Place onto dish. Place in fridge until filling is ready.
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Bring a large pot of water to boil. Cut an X onto the bottom of each peach. Have a large pot of ice cold water ready. Place peaches in for 30-60 seconds. Immediately place in ice water and let them cool. When cooled, you should be able to easily peel the skin off from the X.
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Cut peaches to 0.5-1 cm thick slices.
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Mix dry ingredients (sugar, brown sugar, corn starch, dry anise, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, salt, black pepper).
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Combine peach slices and blueberries with lemon juice. Add rye whiskey. Add dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Let stand for 10 minutes.
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Using a slotted spoon, transfer filling onto prepared pie dish.
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Roll out other half of dough, and do a lattice or full crust (up to you), and crimp edges.
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Place in fridge for 15 minutes.
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Meanwhile, preheat oven to 425F.
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Brush pie with egg wash (1 egg lightly beaten with a splash of water) and sprinkle generously with demarara sugar.
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Bake for 20 minutes, or until crust is light golden.
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Reduce heat to 375F, and bake for another 35-40 minutes, until filling is bubbly.
