Name: Prune Pie
Ingredients: French prunes; cold water; sugar; pie crusts (top and bottom)

Prune Pie

Ingredients

French prunes
cold water
sugar
pie crusts (top and bottom)

Directions

Soak the prunes in a little cold water overnight.
In the morning, remove the stones from the prunes and stew them slowly until tender.
Use a long-handled strainer to remove the prunes from the water.
Strain the cooking water through a piece of flannel, then add sugar to make a syrup.
Pour the syrup over the prunes and bake with two crusts.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.