When I was little, there was an older lady in our church who used to make blueberry pie. She gave my mother the recipe a very long time ago, but my mother lost it at some point and the woman has since passed away.
Here's what my mom remembers about it: it was sweetened with red grape juice concentrate, not sugar, and was surprisingly simple. She has a vague inkling of a memory that the filling might have been cooked on the stove and then poured into the baked crust to set. Then she randomly had the thought that maybe it also had Jell-o in it (which might make sense if it was indeed cooked on the stove?). But she's not sure about that. The no-sugar and grape juice concentrate aspects are for sure though.
I currently have a pie in the oven that I made based on this recipe, which is the only juice-sweetened one I saw amongst the top Google results. Although there are lots of fancier versions, some of which I snagged for my recipe bookmarks while searching, I'm hoping that someone on reddit will have a recipe similar to the simple, delicious one I liked so much as a kid!
bon appetit
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