Today's post deals with pies. Enjoy!
Most of these are from my e-cookbook, Off The Wall Cooking.
SQUASH PIE
This is from Grandma Hallock. She wrote, "I was given several large yellow winter squash by Grandma Carpenter & Grandma said, 'Make pumpkin pie' & I did. They were our favorite from then on."
2 T butter
3/4 C sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp.cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ginger
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1 C mashed yellow winter (hubbard) squash
1 1/4 C milk
Cream butter. Add sugar & eggs. Mix well. Add rest of ingredients. Line 9” pie plate with crust. Pour filling into unbaked pastry shell. Bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour. Serve with whipped cream
CRANBERRY PIE
Dad sent this in a letter dated "18 No 79". He wrote, "Here is a recipe for a pie. 1st the way it was in the paper and the way I made it."
2 T cornstarch
1 C sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1 1/4 C hot water
1 C raisins
1 T butter
2 C cranberries
Pie crust
Blend 1st four ingredients & cook in double boiler until thick. Add next 3 ingredients & cook 10 minutes. Put in pie shell & bake at 450 degrees for 20-30 minutes, covering pie with foil for the first 10-15 minutes. (Crust can be any kind you want.)
VARIATION
2 T cornstarch
1/4 C honey + 1/4 C molasses
1/4 tsp. salt
1 C raisins
1 T margarine
1 1/2 C cranberries + 1 C canned cranberries (kind with berries in sauce)
1 1/4 C hot water
Pie crust
Make as above.
EGG NOG PUMPKIN PIE
1 C canned eggnog
1 egg
18 oz. can pumpkin pie filling
9" pie crust
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. In large bowl, combine egg nog, egg & pie filling; blend well. Pour into crust. Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees; bake 50 minutes longer or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Garnish with whipped cream.
PEACH PIE
4 C peaches, cut up
1 - 1 1/4 C sugar
3 T unbleached flour
dash salt
2 T butter
1 unbaked pie shell and lattice top
Arrange peaches in unbaked pie shell. Mix sugar, flour & salt. Sprinkle over peaches. Dot with butter. Cover with lattice top. Bake at 425 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
CHOCOLATE CREAM PIE
The first time I made this pie, I was 15 and wanted to impress a boyfriend. I did, but not the way I’d planned: the crust came out tasting like under-cooked pizza dough, I burned the chocolate pudding, and the whipped cream came out almost to butter. Hmmm...
9 " pie crust
1 large package chocolate pudding(not instant)
whipped cream
Cook pudding according to package directions. Pour into baked pie crust. White cream & place on pie. Chill.
Note: Now, what could be easier?
