the old boy's strawberry pie

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 1 pinch ground nutmeg
• 4 cups fresh strawberries, hulled
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch

Recipe

Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ready Time: 1 hr 15 mins


• preheat oven to 400 degrees f (200 degrees c). place a drip pan on lowest shelf to catch pie juices.
• to make topping: in a medium bowl, mix until fluffy the 3/4 cup sugar, 3/4 cup flour, butter, and nutmeg.
• place cleaned strawberries in a deep bowl. in a separate bowl, mix together the 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup flour, and cornstarch. gently coat berries with this mixture; be careful not to crush berries.
• pour berries into prepared pie crust mounding them in the middle; mounding is necessary as the berries will sink as they bake. cover berries with crumb topping and top crumbs with about 15 pea-sized blobs of butter. wrap edges of pie crust with foil to prevent burning.
• bake pie in preheated oven for 20 minutes, then reduce heat to 375 degrees f (190 degrees c) and bake for an additional 40 minutes. when there are 10 minutes left of baking, sprinkle a little extra sugar over crumb topping and then finish baking.