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Valentine's Day Pie and Cake

Queen-Of-Hearts Pie

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Author Crisco
uses cranberries and pineapple and creamy Crisco for a light melting pie crust. Put Crisco wholesome lightness in cakes and fried foods, too.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups cranberries
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1/3 cupn pineapple juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger
  • 1 cup pineapple diced
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2/3 cup Crisco
  • 6-8 tablespoons water

Directions

  • Clean cranberries. Cook cranberries, sugar, pineapple juice and ginger until cranberries burst. Remove from stove. Add drained pineapple. Cool.
  • Digestible Crisco Pastry: Sift flour and salt. Cut into light digestible Crisco finely. Add water slowly, stirring, use as little as possible. Divide. Roll each ball out on lightly floured board. Fit bottom crust into pie plate. Fill with cranberry mixture. Slash top crust, fit on pie plate, crimping edges firmly. (To make design in photograph, use small heart-shaped cutter while pastry is on floured board.) Bake in hot oven (425 degrees F.) 30 minutes.