Butterscotch Pie

Mar 14, 2011 No Comments by Pearl D.

Happy π Day!
Today is March 14, or 3.14! Why not bake a pie with your children to celebrate this day?

Today we share with you our Grandma’s Butterscotch Pie recipe. Grandpa loves butterscotch pie, and has even requested that it be served for dessert on his 90^th birthday, coming up next week!

Pie Crust

3 C flour
1½ C shortening

Put 1 egg in measuring cup – mix with fork add 1 T vinegar and 5 T cold water – add to blended flour and shortening.

Butterscotch Pie Filling

3 Tbls. flour
1 ¼ cups brown sugar
2 egg yolk
1 Tbls. creamed butter
1 ½ cup milk added – gradually beating with the above until well mixed. Cook in double boiler or heavy pan stirring constantly.
Use egg whites for meringue

Meringue

2 egg whites
¼ tsp cream of tartar
¼ cup sugar
¼ tsp flavoring

Beat egg whites with cream of tartar. Gradually beat in sugar and flavoring.

8 – 10 min. 400°

Note: Makes one 8″ pie.

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Pearl D.

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Pearl is the youngest of the five “Timberdoodle children”, and she was homeschooled all the way through high school! She’s been employed by Timberdoodle since she was five years old, though her job description has changed over the years. Her responsibilities now include work in order fulfillment, product preview, customer service, and social media.