Apricot pie
Yield: 9 Servings
Ingredients:
- 3 cn Apricots -- 16 oz each Sliced
- 1/2 c Sugar
- 3 tb Flour
- 1/4 ts Nutmeg
- 1/4 ts Cinnamon ds Salt
- 3 tb Butter
- 4 ts Lemon Juice MMMMM---------------------------PASTRY--------------------------------
- 3 c Flour
- 1 1/4 c Shortening
- 1 ts Salt
- 1 Egg
- 2 ts Vinegar
- 5 tb Ice Water
Instructions:
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



