Recipe of the Week – Old Fashioned Raisin Pie
December 8, 2008 at 12:03 pm 1 comment
(From the Dessert Collection at emealsforyou.com)
Old Fashioned Raisin Pie
I got into a discussion with a friend about the cakes and pies we remembered from our long gone youth. I grew up on the East Coast and she grew up in the Midwest. This may not seem like a big deal now; when the grocery stores are full of every produce known to man, and some unknown to most of us, but not too many years ago what you had stored in your pantry is what you used. This is especially true for those who grew up on the Great Plains. So my friend, Mary, tells me she remembers one of her mom’s favorites, Raisin Pie.
Curious to see what a Raisin Pie was, I hit the Internet… type in raisin pie and get hundreds of recipes, stories and some things I can’t go into now. Anyway, I picked the one that I could see, from the recipe, would work out well and made the pie. Being an East Coaster I think the closest we have to this pie is the mincemeat pie my mom would make at Christmas.
I made the pie, froze it and sent it off with Mary to see if we could bring back some of the past to her mom. If you want to try this great dessert from Christmases past I have included the recipe below. Remember, you must wear an apron when you serve it, just for old times sake.
Old Fashioned Raisin Pie
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | Other (General) |
| 2 | cup | raisins |
| 1.66 | cup | water |
| 0.33 | cup | bourbon, Jack Daniels |
| 0.5 | cup | sugar, brown |
| 2 | Tb | cornstarch |
| 0.5 | tsp | cinnamon. ground |
| 0.25 | tsp | salt, kosher |
| 1 | Tb | vinegar, cider |
| 1 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 1 | recipe | Pie Dough |
| 1 | Tb | water |
| 1 | Tb | sugar, white |
| 1 | medium | egg |
Combine raisins and bourbon in a pan, let stand for 10 minutes. Pour water in with the raisins and bring to boil slow boil for 5 minutes. Combine sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon and salt and stir into raisin mixture. Cook for 3 minutes more. Remove from heat, add vinegar and butter and stir. Roll dough into a pie plate, pour mixture into pie plate and cover with a top crust. Brush top with egg wash, sprinkle with sugar and bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 30 minutes.
Entry filed under: Dessert. Tags: Christmas pie, Old Fashioned Raisin Pie, raisin pie, raisins.
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dkzody | December 13, 2008 at 5:25 pm
oooh, bourbon. That would make for a good flavor. The other two-crust raisin pies I’ve seen use lattice top, so yours is definitely different with a full top crust.