Once again, this delicious recipe comes from my mother. This was one of my favorite pies growing up, but since its best to use fresh strawberries we would only have it in the summer. You can use frozen strawberries instead of fresh (which I tried recently) but you have to add water to the strawberry/sugar/flour mix (correct amount unknown) and it just doesn't taste as good.
---Strawberry Pie---
Ingredients:
-One pie crust (an unbaked one is easiest to use for this recipe)
-8 oz cream cheese
-6 c. strawberries (once again, fresh is best!)
-1 and 1/2 c. sugar
-1/2 c. flour
Directions:
Bake the pie crust, and then spread the cream cheese onto the hot crust (if your pie crust is already baked and cooled you'll probably have to melt the cream cheese a little so that you can spread it easily). Hull and wash the strawberries, then place them in a pot and mash them up until they are strawberry goop. Mix in the flour and sugar, then boil it all for one minute, stirring constantly (very easy to burn at this point!!). Pour the strawberry stuff into the cream cheese-covered pie crust, then cool it for a couple of hours until it sets up.
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Well, I certainly do feel famous! We made this last night using blueberries instead of strawberries, and only 1 cup of the sugar. I wonder how raspberries would be?
ReplyDeleteHint: If you place slices of the cream cheese on the hot crust, and come back in a minute, the cream cheese softens and spreads easily without tearing up the crust.
- Your "Mother"