Strawberry Pie

Today we made a great strawberry pie!

Ben bought the strawberries at Macey's on Wednesday. They were sort of an impulse buy, and we didn't have any particular plans for them. So they sat in the fridge until today.

We have a 1956 Betty Crocker's Cookbook with "South Davis Jr. High, Bountiful, UT" stamped inside the front cover. It must have been Grandma Irvine's from when she taught Home Ec. there. It is my favorite cookbook because everything in it is sooo good. Back then they used things like butter and more butter and all sorts of unhealthy things. It is a two crust pie:

Crust:
1 and 1/2 cups flour
3/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup lard OR 1/2 cup and 2 Tbsp shortening
3 Tbsp water

Filling:

Mix together:
1 and 1/2 cups sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Lightly mix with:
4 cups berries (fresh, washed, halved or quartered) You can use any berries the book says.

Pour mixture into pastry lined pie pan (uncooked crust).

Dot with 1 and 1/2 Tbsp of butter.

Place top crust on and cut slits in the top.

Bake at 425 degrees for 35 to 45 minutes, or "until the crust is nicely browned and juice begins to bubble through slits."

The juice bubbled over, so I recommend putting a cookie sheet under the pie while it is baking. Fortunately I learned this lesson when cooking cobbler, and my oven is not covered in burning strawberry juice.

I love strawberry pie, and this is one of the best I have had in a long time. I think the strawberry pies with strawberry jello and cold strawberries cannot compare at all with this kind of warm, gooey pie. The only problem is that we don't have any vanilla ice cream and it is Sunday so we couldn't go get any. Maybe tomorrow.

I also really love apple dumplings. Grandma Irvine made some once when we went to dinner at her house. They were lovely, and actually somewhat similar to this pie. Except with apples and in small, personal servings. This cookbook has a recipe for apple dumplings, which I am going to have to try one of these days. And I must make sure to get Grandma's recipe.

Anyway, a great strawberry pie that I recommend trying.