Haussner's Strawberry Pie
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
For The Pie:
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon strawberry flavoring
1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
1 1/2 cups boiling water
3 tablespoons cornstarch dissolved in 1/2 cup water
1 cup Pastry Cream -- recipe follows
1 9-inch flaky pie shell -- prebaked
1 1/2 pints strawberries -- washed and hulled
whipped cream -- for decoration
1/4 cup toasted slivered almonds
Pastry Cream:
1 cup milk
3 each egg yolks
1/4 cup +2 tblp sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 to 1 1/2 tbl butter -- softened
Recipe
To make a glaze, add sugar, strawberry flavoring and food coloring to boiling water. Add dissolved cornstarch
and stir over medium-high heat until mixture thickens. Remove from stove and set aside. Prepare Pastry Cream
and let it cool, then spread in bottom of baked pie shell. Pour in 1/2 pint of strawberries (if large berries, cut in half
lengthwise), cover with half the water-sugar glaze and add remaining strawberries. Cover with remaining glaze.
Decorate the edge with a circle of whipped cream and sprinkle with slivered almonds. Chill and serve.
Pastry Cream:
Scald milk in a saucepan and set aside. In a bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and sugar until light in color and
very thick, then beat in the flour. Pour the warm milk slowly into egg mixture and blend well. Pour mixture into
saucepan and cook, stirring with a whisk, over low heat until mixture comes to a boil. It will appear lumpy at first;
keep whisking. Make sure mixture does not stick to bottom of pan and burn.
Remove from heat. Add vanilla and butter. Cover surface with buttered waxed paper so it does not form a skin.
Allow to cool.
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