Sour Cream Raisin Pie
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Prepare 1 9" (unbaked) bottom pie crust
To small saucepan add
1 slightly beaten Egg
1 cup Raisins + 1 Apple, cut in 1/2" cubes, or 1 1/2 - 2 cups raisins - *see note below
1 cup Sugar (or Splenda)
1 cup Sour Cream
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
2 Tablespoons Vinegar (I use apple cider)
Mix and cook over medium heat until the raisins start to plump, stirring to keep it from burning. (Grandma's recipe says this should take 'a few minutes.' I think this took me at least 10 minutes, and they didn't plump a lot. The sauce turns a light brown with the sugar, but not the Splenda.) Pour into pie crust.
Bake 35 - 40 minutes. Serve alone or with whipped cream.
*Note: Grandma's recipe calls for 1 cup raisins, it makes a very small amount of filling that way, and there seems to be plenty of sauce, so I use 1 1/2 to 2 cups. Yesterday I decided that next time I make it, rather than adding more supersweet raisins, I would try adding apple. The taste should be about the same, the pie will be more satisfactorily filled, and it should be a bit less sweet.
It sounds a little weird, and I've never had it anywhere else, but it's good. Kind of like meat-free mincemeat, I suppose, only not so strong.
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