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Strawberry Pie

A pie with a rich crust filled with crushed strawberries sweetened with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Strawberry Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Make the crust

  1. Bake a rich pie crust and let it cool.

Fill and finish

  1. Fill the cooled crust with crushed strawberries, sweetened to taste.

  2. Frost the pie.

  3. Brown it in the oven.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Rich pie crust
Forms the baked shell that holds the filling in place.
Crushed strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavor and moisture for the filling.
Sugar
Sweetens the strawberries to taste.

“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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