Apricot Pie
Ingredients
3 can apricots -- 16 oz each,
1 sliced
1/2 cup sugar
3 tbsp flour
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 dash salt
3 tbsp butter
4 tsp lemon juice
PASTRY
3 cup flour
1 1/4 cup shortening
1 tsp salt
1 egg
2 tsp vinegar
5 tbsp ice water
Preparation
For filling: Heat oven to 375 deg F. Drain apricots; reserve 1/3 C
syrup. In a saucepan, stir together sugar, flour, spices and salt.
Add reserved syrup; cook until thickened; remove from heat and add
butter, lemon juice and apricots. Pour mixture into prepared,
pastry-lined pie pan. Place top crust; crimp to seal; cut slits in
top. Bake for 45 min.
Pastry: Blend together flour, shortening and salt with a pastry
blender. Beat together egg, vinegar and ice water. Mix with flour
mixture, using fork, until mixture forms a ball. Roll out 1/8" thick
on lightly floured pastry cloth with covered rolling pin. Fit crust
into pie pan and trim. Bake pie according to filling directions.
Patricia Lomax, Mansfield, Ohio
Recipe By : Home Cooking, Oct 1994, pg 53
Servings: 9
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