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All-American Strawberry Pie Recipe

Sweet, red strawberries combined with pretty, tart blueberries, all layered atop a creamy vanilla pudding...that makes a red-white-and-blue pie that my grandmother would serve every Fourth of July!

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All-American Strawberry Pie Recipe

Prep: 20 min. + chilling

Yield: 8 Servings

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Ingredients

3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups milk
3 egg yolks, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons butter
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 pint heavy whipping cream
1-1/2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
1 pie shell (9 inches), baked
1 pint fresh strawberries, halved
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

Directions

In a 3-qt. saucepan, combine sugar, flour and salt. Add milk, stirring until smooth. Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened. Stir in small amount of milk mixture into yolks, then return all to saucepan. Cook, stirring for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; stir in butter and vanilla. Cool 20 minutes.
Pour into pie shell; chill several hours until firm. Whip cream and sugar; spread half over pie filling. Arrange berries on cream. Dollop or pipe remaining cream around edge of pie. Yield: 8 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 piece) equals 456 calories, 26 g fat (14 g saturated fat), 146 mg cholesterol, 262 mg sodium, 49 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 7 g protein.

Originally published as All-American Strawberry Pie in Grandma's Great Desserts Cookbook , p78