Dougherty Family Recipe Box

Category: Pie

  • Impossible Pie

    Ingredients

    • 2 cups milk
    • 4 eggs
    • 1 cup coconut
    • 3/4 cup white sugar
    • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
    • 1/4 cup butter
    • 2 teaspoons vanilla
    • pinch salt

    Method

    1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
    2. Grease a pie plate.
    3. Put all ingredients in a blender and blend on slow for half a minute.
    4. Pour batter into pie plate.
    5. Bake until done (about 50 to 60 minutes).

    Source

    Barkley family recipe.

  • Mock Cherry Pie

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup cranberries
    • 1/2 cup seeded raisins, chopped
    • 1 cup white sugar
    • 1 tablespoon flour
    • 1/2 cup boiling water
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • pinch salt

    Method

    1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
    2. Cut cranberries in half and add raisins.
    3. Mix together sugar and flour, and stir into fruit.
    4. Pour on boiling water.
    5. Mix in vanilla and salt.
    6. Put filling in a double pie crust.
    7. Bake until crust slips in bottom of pan (about 25 minutes).

    Source

    Barkley family recipe.

  • Gooseberry Pie

    Ingredients

    • 2 cups gooseberries
    • 1/2 cup water
    • 1 cup white sugar
    • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
    • 1/8 teaspoon salt

    Method

    1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
    2. Cook berries in water in saucepan over medium heat until berries are tender.
    3. Mix sugar, flour, and salt in with berries and cook until thick.
    4. Cool, then put filling in pie shell and top with meringue.
    5. Bake until meringue is browned (about 15 minutes).

    Source

    Barkley family recipe.

  • Rhubarb Pie Filling

    Ingredients

    • 4 cups rhubarb chopped
    • 1 1/3 cup sugar
    • 6 tablespoons all purpose flour
    • 1 tablespoon butter
    • pie crust

    Method

    1. Preheat oven to 450°F.
    2. Prepare the bottom crust.
    3. Mix together sugar and flour.
    4. Sprinkle 1/4 of sugar mixture on the bottom crust.
    5. Heap rhubarb in the crust.
    6. Sprinkle remaining sugar mixture over the rhubarb.
    7. Dot the top with butter.
    8. Add top crust.
    9. Bake for 15 minutes.
    10. Reduce heat to 350°F and bake for 45 minutes longer (finished pie should slip inside the pie plate).

    Source

  • Pumpkin Pie Filling

    Ingredients

    • 1/2 recipe pie crust
    • 2 cups roast pumpkin puree
    • 1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk
    • 2 eggs
    • 3/4 cup brown sugar
    • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
    • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
    • 1/4 teaspoon cardamom 
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt

    Method

    1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
    2. Prepare bottom pie crust.
    3. Beat together all other ingredients.
    4. Pour filling into crust.
    5. Bake pie until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean (about 45 minutes).

    Source