Cooking for Graduate Students & Other Beginning Kitchen Dwellers (James W. Cooper)
Recipe Introduction
Here is a simple, delicious pie that requires a box of gelatin dessert mix and a packaged graham cracker crumb pie shell. Then mix and chill and you have a great pie.
1 qt strawberries
1 dash salt
1 cup sugar
3 oz strawberry Jello mix
2 Tb corn starch
1 cup water
1 graham cracker crumb piecrust
whipped cream
Recipe
Wash the strawberries and cut off the stems. Split or quarter them if large. Drain them and chill, covered in the refrigerator. Combine the sugar, cornstarch, salt, Jello mix, and water in a medium saucepan. Cook with stirring until the mixture boils. Cool the pan in an ice-water filled bowl or the refrigerator until it begins to set. Place the strawberries in a graham cracker crumb crust and pour the cooling mixture over it. Refrigerate until set and served with whipped cream.