Name: Jam Cream Pie
Ingredients: 1 cup whipping cream; 1 cup jam or preserves; pie shell

Jam Cream Pie

Ingredients

1 cup whipping cream
1 cup jam or preserves
pie shell

Directions

Prepare

Bake and cool the pie shell.
Spread the jam in the bottom of the shell.

Assemble and serve

Whip the cream until stiff and spread it on top of the jam.
Optionally, dot some jam on top of the whipped cream.
Keep cool until ready to serve.

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

Whipping cream: Whipped into stiff peaks, it forms the light, airy topping of the pie.
Jam or preserves: Provides a sweet, fruity layer that flavours the pie beneath the cream.

“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.