Cranberry Apple Pie
3 cups sliced apples (about 6 large apples)
1 cup chopped cranberries (fresh or frozen, not dried)
1 to 1½ cup sugar
3 Tbsp cornstarch
¼ tsp salt
Double pie crust, or single crust with crumb topping*
Mix fruit and dry ingredients together and put in pie crust. Bake for 1 hour at 375 degrees.
*There is a crumb topping recipe with the fall apple recipes under cookies and treats
Pumpkin-Pecan Pie
Mix together and put in single pie crust
1 egg
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
(or ½ tsp cinnamon, and ¼ tsp each nutmeg and cloves)
1 cup canned pumpkin
Mix together, than stir in 1 cup pecan halves. Spoon over pumpkin mixture:
2 eggs
2/3 cups corn syrup
3 Tbsp butter
½ tsp vanilla
Bake at 375 degrees for 40 to 50 minutes, or until set.
Pumpkin Pie
2 eggs
2 cups canned pumpkin
2/3 cups sugar
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ginger
¼ tsp cloves
1 - 12 oz can evaporated milk
1 single pie shell
Mix ingredients in the order given, and pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake 1 hour at 375 degrees or until knife inserted in center comes our clean.
Pie Crust for three crusts
3 cups flour
1tsp salt
1 cup shortening
approx 6 Tbsp cold water
Mix flour and salt. Cut in shortening with whisk. Slowly add water until the consistency is right. Bake unfilled shell for 10-12 minutes at 450 degrees.
