Special Raisin Pie Food

RAISIN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a saucepan, stir together sugar and flour. Add water and mix well. Stir in raisins, salt and cinnamon; cook and stir over medium heat until bubbly. Cook and stir 1 minute more. Remove from heat and stir in butter. Pour into a pastry-lined 9-inch pie plate. Top with lattice crust, or cover with top crust and cut slits for steam to escape. Bake until crust is golden brown, about 45 minutes.

SIMPLE RAISIN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (225 degrees C).
• In a large saucepan, combine water, sugar, flour, salt, vanilla, butter or margarine, and lemon juice. Mix well, then stir in raisins. Simmer over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring frequently. Remove from heat.
• Pour raisin mixture into pastry-lined pie pan. Cover with second pastry. Seal edges and cut steam vents in top.
• Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes, then lower the heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake an additional 25 to 30 minutes.

SPECIAL RAISIN CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Combine raisins, white sugar, spices, sour cream, eggs, and butter or margarine in saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil, and reduce heat. Cook until thick, stirring constantly. Set aside to cool.
• Blend cream cheese and confectioners' sugar together. Fold in 2 cups whipped topping.
• Spread half of cream cheese mixture on bottom of baked and cooled pie shell. Cover with cooled raisin mixture, and top with remaining cream cheese mixture. Spread additional whipped topping on top of pie. Refrigerate.

SPECIAL RAISIN PIE

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine raisins and water. Bring to a boil; cook 2 minutes. Add sugars and salt; cook until sugars are dissolved. Combine cornstarch and cold water until smooth; gradually stir into the pan. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly. Remove from the heat; stir in the juices, zests and extract., Roll out half of the pie dough to fit a 9-in. pie plate; transfer to pie plate. Fill with raisin mixture. Dot with butter., Roll out remaining dough; make a lattice crust. Trim, seal and flute edge. Bake at 375° for 35-40 minutes or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly, covering edge with foil during the last 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Refrigerate leftovers.

OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIE PIE

Steps:

• Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and preheat to 350 degrees F. Roll the dough into a 12-inch round on a lightly floured surface (or between two pieces of floured parchment paper). Ease the dought into a 9-inch glass pie plate and flute the edge as desired. Chill 30 minutes.
• Line the pie dough with foil and pie weights and bake until the edge just starts to turn golden, about 15 minutes. Remove the foil and weights and continue to bake until the bottom is lightly golden, about 10 minutes more. Cool completely on a rack, about 15 minutes.
• Combine the sugar, butter, egg, flour, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a food processor. Process until smooth and combined. Add the oats and raisins and pulse a few times until roughly chopped.
• Scrape the filling into the par-baked pie shell and spread evenly. Bake until the top is golden brown and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Let cool on a rack for at least 1 hour if serving warm, or let cool completely and serve at room temperature. Top with ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream.

OLD FASHIONED RAISIN PIE I

Steps:

• Combine raisins and water in a small saucepan. Boil 5 minutes. Blend brown sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, and salt together; add to hot raisins. Cook and stir until syrup is clear. Remove from heat, and stir in vinegar and butter or margarine. Cool slightly.
• Turn filling into a pastry lined pan. Cover with top crust. Seal edges, and cut slits in the top crust.
• Bake at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) for 30 to 35 minutes.

OLD FASHIONED RAISIN PIE

Steps:

• Divide the pastry almost in half and roll out the larger half, on a lightly floured surface, to a 13-inch circle. Line a 9-inch pie plate with the pastry and trim the pastry 1/2 inch beyond the rim of the pie plate. Combine the raisins, brown sugar, corn starch and drink mix in a 3-quart saucepan.
• Stir in the water and lemon juice. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture boils and thickens.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the walnuts.
• Turn the mixture into the pastry-lined pie plate and dot with the butter.
• Roll out the remaining pastry to an 11-inch circle. Place the top crust over filling and trim the edge to 1-inch beyond the rim.
• Fold the top crust under the bottom crust and form a ridge. Flute the edge and cut steam vents in the top crust. Bake in a preheated 400 degree F.
• oven for 30 minutes or until the crust is a golden brown and the filling is bubbly.
• Cool on a wire rack.

GRANDMA FRIENDSHIP'S RAISIN PIE

Steps:

• On a lightly floured work surface, roll 1 piece of pie crust into a 12-inch round. With a dry pastry brush, sweep off the excess flour; fit dough into a 9-inch pie plate, pressing it into the edges. Cover with plastic wrap; chill pie shell until firm, about 30 minutes.
• In a medium saucepan, mix together raisins, water, cornstarch, sugar, vinegar, salt, cinnamon, and butter. Bring to a gentle boil over medium-high heat. Let boil until very thick, stirring constantly, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
• Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Pour raisin mixture into pie shell. On a lightly floured work surface, roll remaining piece of pie crust into a 12-inch round. Using a 1 1/4-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out 8 decorative heart shapes in a circular pattern, from center of the top crust. Lay over raisin mixture. Trim top and bottom edges, leaving a 1-inch overhang; press lightly to seal, then fold under and press again. Crimp edges as desired.
• In a small bowl, whisk together egg yolk, milk, and salt. Brush egg mixture over crust and place pie on a rimmed baking sheet. Transfer to oven and bake until crust is golden and filling is bubbly, 25 to 30 minutes. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

RAISIN CRUMB PIE

Steps:

• preheat oven to 375*.
• prick crust with fork and prebake it for 5 minutes, it should not be coloring.
• in a 2 quart saucepan,combine the raisins, 2 cups water, brown sugar, lemon juice,and salt.
• bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirrin occasionally.
• in a small bowl, combine the cornstarch with the remaining 1/4 cup of water; whisk it into the raisin mixture and continue cooking and stirring until mixture is thick and bubbly.
• about 2 minutes.
• stir in the butter and let the mixture cool.
• pour the cooked filling into the crust and set aside.
• in a small bowl, or food processor, combine the flour, brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, and softened butter until crumbly.
• sprinkle the crumb topping over the raisins pie.
• bake, for about 25-30 minutes or until the top is golden brown --
• cool and refrigerate.

OUR RAISIN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400*.
• Line 9" pie plate with pastry; set aside.
• In microwave proof bowl, mix raisins, brown sugar and flour; stir in orange juice, water and salt.
• Microwave 8 minutes on High, stirring every 2 minutes.
• Remove from oven and add vanilla.
• Let cool. Spoon cooled mixture in pie shell.
• Cover with pastry.
• Crimp edges to seal and slash top to let steam escape during baking.
• Bake 15 minutes at 400*, reduce heat to 350* and bake another 45 minutes.
• Serve warm.
• Tip:.
• Good served ice cream.

GOLDEN OLDIE OLD FASHIONED RAISIN PIE

Steps:

• Wash raisins in cool water and drain. Place raisins and boiling water in a saucepan and cook until raisins plump.
• Blend brown sugar with flour and add to the raisin mixture. Cook over low heat until thickened, stirring frequently. Remove from heat.
• Add lemon rind, lemon juice and pinch of salt. Cool. Stir.
• Line deep nine-inch pie plate with pastry.
• Brush bottom of pastry with beaten egg white (keeps bottom of pie from getting soggy).
• Pour in cooled filling.
• Add top crust and seal edges.
• Make several steam vents with a knife in the top pastry.
• Decorate top of pie with pastry cut outs, using cookie cutters for shapes, if desired.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Bake pie 40 to 50 minutes until nicely browned.

DEEP DISH APPLE-RAISIN PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees (bottom rack).
• In a large bowl, combine apples, raisins, sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and cloves.
• Mound mixture in prepared unbaked pastry shell; dot with small pieces of butter.
• Cover the filling with top pie crust; seal, and flute edges.
• Cut several vents/slits in top crust to vent out steam.
• Place on a cookie sheet if desired to prevent spills.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until crust is golden, and apples are tender.
• Cool at least 30 minutes before serving.