Sour Cream Raisin Pie Recipe

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A hint of lemon gives extra zing to the creamy pudding-and-raisin filling in this homey dessert. Topped off with sweetened sour cream, it's sure to be a hit at your house. "I came across this recipe in a booklet quite some time ago," pens Patricia Kile of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. "To lighten it, I sometimes use low-fat sour cream instead of regular."

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Sour Cream Raisin Pie Recipe

Prep: 20 min. + chilling

Yield: 6-8 Servings

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Ingredients

1-3/4 cups water
1 cup raisins
1 package (3 ounces) cook-and-serve vanilla pudding mix
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon butter
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1 pastry shell (9 inches), baked
1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Directions

In a saucepan, combine the first five ingredients. Cook and stir until mixture comes to a boil and is thickened and bubbly. Remove from the heat; stir in butter, lemon juice and peel. Cool for 5 minutes, stirring twice. Pour into pastry shell. Press a piece of plastic wrap or waxed paper on top of filling; refrigerate overnight. Remove waxed paper. In a bowl, combine the sour cream, confectioners' sugar and nutmeg. Spread over pie. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 6-8 servings.

Originally published as Sour Cream Raisin Pie in Country Woman March/April 2000, p40