Easy Pie Recipes

Unique Pie Recipes From Grandma's Kitchen

Pineapple Pumpkin Pie

Mix 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon salt, add 1 cup crushed pineapple, 1 cup cooked stained pumpkin, 2 beaten eggs, 1 cup milk; pour into pastry lined pie plate and bake in hot oven for 10 minutes; reduce heat and bake till firm in center. -- Mrs. J. McCurdy

Vanilla Cream Pie

One pint milk, 1 cup granulated sugar, 3 eggs (yolks), 4 tablespoons flour, 1 teaspoon butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/4 teaspoon salt. Put milk in double boiler; mix flour, sugar, and beaten yolks all together, beat well; add to boiling milk, add butter and vanilla. Cool, then turn into a baked shell. Beat whites of eggs until stiff and sweeten with 2 tablespoons sugar to form a meringue. Spread on pie and brown in oven.

Butterscotch Pie

One cup brown sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 egg yolks, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup water, 2 egg whites beaten stiff, 4 tablespoons granulated sugar, and baked pastry shell.

Beat together the brown sugar, flour, egg yolks, and salt; add the milk diluted with the water and cook in a double boiler until thick; add the vanilla, cool slightly and pour into the pastry shell. Cover with a meringue made with the egg whites and the granulated sugar; brown lightly in a very low oven. -- Mrs. Geo. Hetherington

Sugar, or Shoo-Fly Pie

First Part: 3 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup butter, or lard. Rub thoroughly. This makes crumbs for the top.

Second Part: 1 cup molasses, 1 cup hot water, 1 teaspoon soda (dissolved in water). Put water and molasses together and add soda. Divide into four plates (portions), then add crumbs on top and bake with under crust only.

Buttermilk Pie

Two cups buttermilk, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar. Bake with an undercrust only. Makes enough for two pies.

Canadian Backwoods Pie

One cup brown sugar, 1 cup syrup (maple syrup, if convenient), 1/2 cup sweet milk, butter size of an egg, yolks of 3 eggs, nutmeg to taste. Beat all together, lastly add the egg whites well beaten. Bake with one crust in moderate oven till done.

Bachelor's Fruit Pie

One and one-half cups flour, 1 large tablespoon baking powder, pinch of spice to suit your taste, pinch of salt, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, 1/2 cup raisins or currants, milk enough to make the biscuit dough.

Take a small deep pot or kettle, in which melt 2 tablespoons lard, or butter. Put in the dough so that it will cover the bottom, then melt 1 tablespoon lard, or butter, and pour over top. Bake about 15 minutes in quick oven.

Note on Fruit Pies: Put a little soda in sour fruit and pies will require less sugar.