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Cranberry Pie

A pie made with cranberries, sugar, and a bottom crust, baked at 350°F.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cranberry Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the filling

  1. Wash and stew the cranberries.

  2. Strain them through a coarse sieve.

  3. Add the sugar to the strained cranberries.

Bake

  1. Place the bottom crust in the pie pans and fill with the cranberry mixture.

  2. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Cranberries
Provide the tart flavor and pectin that helps the filling thicken as it cooks.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and balances the cranberries' tartness.
Bottom pie crust
Holds the filling and forms the base of the pie.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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