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Mom's Strawberry Pie
 
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Prep Time: 25 Minutes
Cook Time: 5 Minutes
Ready In: 30 Minutes
Servings: 1
My mom is a great cook, but she is famous for two things. Her molasses cookies and this strawberry pie. Oops! Edited to correct posting error after Ms Sally's review.
Ingredients:
1 (8 inch) pie crusts, baked
1 cup whipping cream
3 ounces cream cheese
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 pinch salt
1 pint strawberry, divided
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 pinch salt
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon red food coloring
Directions:
1. STRAWBERRY TOPPING.
2. Wash and halve strawberries.
3. Whisk together the sugar, cornstarch and salt in a medium saucepan.
4. Add the water, lemon juice and red food coloring. Cook over medium high heat until the mixture starts to thicken, stirring frequently.
5. Add half of the strawberries and cook until mixture is thickened.
6. Add remaining strawberries and remove from heat.
7. Cool completely before putting on top of cream filling in pie shell.
8. CREAM FILLING.
9. While strawberry filling cools, whip the whipping cream.
10. In separate bowl, beat together the cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla and salt.
11. Fold in the whipped cream and spread in the bottom of the cooled pie shell.
12. Once the strawberry filling has cooled, gently put it on top of the cream filling.
By RecipeOfHealth.com