Apricot Pie

Title:
Apricot Pie

Yield:
9 Servings

Categories:
Fruits,
Pastries




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





-----------------------------------PASTRY-----------------------------------


     3 c  Flour


 1 1/4 c  Shortening


     1 ts Salt


     1    Egg


     2 ts Vinegar


     5 tb Ice Water





 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


 


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