Description
This is a summertime tradition in my family, and we have NEVER tasted, (or even seen), a strawberry pie like it! You will LOVE this. ‘The Old Boy’ is my dad, but my mom remembers her grandmother making a pie like this when she was young.
Ingredients
- 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie
- ¾ cup white sugar
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
- 4 cups fresh strawberries, hulled
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Instructions
- 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.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Servings: 8