Fresh Strawberry Pie

This is Grandma-mom's recipe. I love it! I've decided what makes this simple recipe so good is the lemon!

Ingrediants:

1 cup water
3/4 cup sugar
2 T cornstarch
Juice of 1 lemon
2 lbs strawberries
large pie crust

Mix sugar and cornstarch in a small bowl until well blended. Set aside. Take 3-4 strawberries and smash. Bring water to a boil. Add sugar mixture to water. Blend thoroughly while still cooking. Add juice of 1 lemon. Remove from heat and let cool. Add smashed strawberries. Hull remaining strawberries and place in large pie crust. Pour water/sugar mixture over strawberries. Refrigerate 1-2 hours or until ready to serve.

It's great served with whipped cream! I am lazy, so I usually buy the pie crust. My favorite to use is a shortbread crumb crust, but this is grahm cracker crumb. Enjoy!

Kristada

Here's a recipe of Mom's that I've always liked! When mom was in college, she got this recipe from one of her roommates. I've never come across anything quite like it. It's like pie that thinks it's cake! In any case, it's yummy! Here you go!

Kristada

1/2 lb butter or margrine

1 1/2 C sugar

4 eggs

3 C flour

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 cans pie filling (I usually use cherry, but you could do anything you like)

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Add vanilla. Mix in flour. Dough will be sticky. Grease a baking sheet and spread about 2/3 of the dough on the pan. Pour pie filling onto dough. (If it looks like too much, you don't have to use all of both cans.) Spoon remaining dough onto filling. Try to spread it a little so it's not just blobs, but it you should still see plenty of pie filling.Bake @ 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes.

Enjoy!

Karas very Chocolate Pecan Pie

This a great recipe Kara got in Washington I finally got to taste it for Christmas eve. It is rich and yummy, smart to share so you don't eat it all yourself!

Ingredients:
3 eggs slightly beaten 1 cup sugar
1cup light or dark corn syrup 2 Tbls. melted butter
1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1-1/4 cup pecan pieces

1 9-inch pie shell,unbaked
1. Prepare single pie crust/preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. In a large bowl stir eggs, sugar, corn syrup, vanilla and melted butter until well blended. Stir in chocolate chips and pecans. pour into crust.
3. Bake 50 to 55 minutes until a knife stuck into the center comes out clean.remove and cool on a wire rick.

Enjoy any occasion with this pie!

mom's Snickerdoodles
these can be called pecan crescents, Russian tea cakes, and that would be fine but Mom's snickerdoodles have a special touch from my moms' childhood memories and the best discovery was made when she was just in the hurry to make these yummy treats and didn't let them cool. What a great surprise when you bite into the cookies that were not cooled but put in the powdered sugar hot the are coated in melted powdered sugar.MM yumm . but if you can keep them sealed up for a week or two(best to ship them around the world and back) the real butter only improves the flavor for the most irresistible treat ever! of course y must remember to use real butter!
so here it is!
moms Snickerdoodles
cream 1/2 pound butter and
1/2 cup powdered sugar

then mix in
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour and
1/2 cup pecans chopped fine
form in small crescents ,bake in hot oven (about 400 degree F) for about 10 min.
don't let them get to brown, just bake until bottom edge get starts to brown,
Roll in powdered sugar while still hot let it melt to the cookies.

now for the explanation for why these are snickerdoodles! when my mom was a little girl, her mom was bakeing an assortment of cookies for the holidays. my mom came in the kitchen and asked what the cookies were called and my grandma told her snickerdoodles thinking that they were the cookies in question so the pecan cresents have always been snickerdoodles to my mom and our family. silly I'm sure and what a disapointment for each ofus as we grew up and were offered snickerdoodles by our friends, as good as they were, they just were not what we were expecting!
now you have my first entry I hope you enjoy! your MOM or friend or sister, Brenda