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Pie-a-Day #8 Strawberry Cream Pie
Another confession, (interesting how this pie thing is so confessional). Today is the first time I’ve made a cornstarch thickened custard since I was regularly cooking out of the plaid,…
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readplaid, ring bound cookbook. Again, I was inspired by James McNair’s Pie Cookbook. His recipe for Cherry Cream Pie came from his Grandmother Keith in Jackson, Mississippi.
I made that superb Cherry Clafoutis Pie just a couple of days ago and Harry’s Berries from the farmers markets are haunting me, so I decided to make the pie with strawberries instead of cherries. I’m still not convinced about the cornstarch, in fact I think the 2 tablespoons used to thicken the fruit may have been a typo. I’m going to try another version of a Strawberry Cream Pie with a different custard recipe. We did enjoy the filling as a pudding although a little went a long way. I brought the pie with me to a meeting at the DineLA advisory board today.