VALLEY GRAPE PIE

Fruit pie made from green seedless grapes

This recipe came originally from the Los Angeles Times Magazine. It's unusual: I'd never before thought of using grapes in a pie before. But it's good!

Ingredients

(1 pie)

150 g Graham cracker crumbs
40 g sugar
80 g butter, melted
15 ml cornstarch
130 g sugar
60 ml cold water
1 kg green seedless grapes, with stems removed
15 ml lemon juice
250 ml sour cream
15 g sugar
5 ml vanilla extract

Procedure

Preheat oven to 175C
Combine cracker crumbs, 40 g sugar, and butter.
Reserve 1/4 cup of this crumb mixture and press the rest into a 22-cm pie pan.
Bake at 175C for 8 minutes. Allow to cool.
Dissolve cornstarch and 130 g sugar in cold water in saucepan. Add grapes, and bring to boil, stirring constantly.
Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the lemon juice. cool.
Spoon this filling into the baked and cooled crust. Mix sour cream with 15 g sugar and vanilla and spread over pie. Sprinkle with reserved crumbs. Serve.

Rating

Difficulty: easy to moderate (burns easily).
Time: 30 minutes.
Precision: approximate measurement OK.

Contributor

 
Michelle Berteig 
Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA 
michelle@tybalt.caltech.edu

Recipe last modified: 28 Oct 87

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