Friday, April 6, 2018

Farmer's French Pear Pie (1965)

  • Unbaked 9-inch pie shell
  • 5 large Bartlett pears
  • 3 tbspns frozen orange juice concentrate
  • 1/2 tspn grated lemon peel
  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/8 tspn salt
  • 1 tspn cinnamon
  • 1/2 tspn ginger
  • 1/3 cup butter
Peel, core, and slice pears thinly. Toss lightly with undiluted orange juice concentrate and lemon peel.  Arrange in pie shell.

Mix together remaining ingredients until crumbly. Sprinkle evenly over pears, being careful to cover all.

Bake in hot oven, 400 degrees, for 40 minutes or until fruit is tender. 

(Origin - "Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook" edited by Nell B Nichols, 1965.)

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