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Holiday Showcase 2025: Siren Shrub Hand Pies
Take your meeting to the next level with a taste
of the Stevens Point Area
We’re spotlighting Siren Shrub and a delicious hand pie recipe that blends local flavor with simple, feel-good baking. Because around here, great gatherings start with great makers.
Ingredients
DOUGH
1 cup plus 6 Tbsp. butter
2 tsp. salt
2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for surface
6 Tbsp. buttermilk
FILLING
1 orange
8 oz. fresh or frozen cranberries
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 tsp Siren Shrub maple ginger
1 1/2 tsp cornstarch
All purpose flour for dusting
1 large egg
2 Tbsp. raw or sanding sugar.
DOUGH
- Cut butter into 1/2 inch pieces and freeze on a small plate for 30 min.
- Pulse salt and 2 cups flour in a food processor to combine.
- Remove butter from the freezer and add to the processor.
- Pulse mixture until crumbly and butter is about pea-size (30-35 quick pulses).
- Drizzle in buttermilk, then pulse until a rough ball forms (it will be crumbly).
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and press into a disk. Wrap in plastic and chill for at least 1 hour.
FILLING
While the dough chills, make the filling.
- Remove 2 wide strips of zest from orange. Chop zest into small pieces.
- Cut orange in half and squeeze 2 Tbsp of juice into a small saucepan.
- Add cranberries, granulated sugar, maple ginger shrub, and orange zest.
- Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves.
- Reduce heat; simmer, stirring occasionally until cranberries are soft (6-8 min.).
- Stir cornstarch into 1 Tbsp of water in a small bowl to dissolve, then add slurry to cranberry mixture.
- Simmer, stirring until filing thickens and looks very shiny.
- Scrape into a heat proof bowl and let cool.
- Cover and chill for 1 hour.
Photo by @taracoledesigns
ASSEMBLY
- Roll out the dough disk on a lightly floured surface to about 1/4 inches thick.
- Using a 3 inch diameter cookie cutter or glass, punch out rounds, transfering to a baking sheet as you go (roughly 20).
- Chill until ready to use.
- continue to roll out dough disks and punch out as many more rounds as you can.
- Arrange on a baking sheet.
- Whisk egg in a small bowl and brush edges of each round.
- Spoon a heaping teaspoon of filling into the center of half of the rounds.
- Drape remaining rounds, egg-brushed sides down on top.
- Crimp edges with a fork to seal.
- Place pies on a parchment lined baking sheet and freeze for 15 min.
BAKING
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Cut a small slit in the top of each pie.
- Brush with reserved egg.
- Sprinkle with raw sugar.
- Bake until crusts are golden brown and fillings are bubbling (16-18min.)
- Transfer to a wire rack; let cool until warm.
About Siren Shrubs
In every one of Siren's products, you'll find at least one Wisconsin ingredient. By collaborating with other Wisconsin growers and producers including Tapped Maple Syrup and Whitefeather Organics, Siren Shrub is able to perfect every recipe. In fact, their emphasis on collaboration with Wisconsin farms, won the company the “Innovative Local Sourcing” award at Feast Local Foods Marketplace in Minnesota in 2019.
Want to try these tasty shrubs outside of your house? In the Stevens Point Area you'll find Siren Shrub on the menu at Father Fats, Guu's on Main, Main Grain Bakery, O'Brien's on Main, and Mission Coffee House. Or, if you want to bring your shrubs to-go, head to the Stevens Point Area Co-Op, Ruby, Village Hive, and Agora Local Makers Market.
Photo by @sirenshrubs
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