cw (06/28/82)
Cream Cheese Fruit Pie
Ingredients for Cream Filling
1 small package of cream cheese
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 pint heavy cream
9 inch baked pie shell
Method
Mix until smooth and creamy the cream cheese, the sugar, and
the vanilla. Whip the cream and fold the cheese mixture
into the whipped cream. Pour into a baked 9 inch pie shell.
Chill while preparing fruit.
Ingredients for Fruit Filling
2-3 cups cleaned berries -- strawberries, raspberries,
cherries, or whatever you like
water
cornstarch
sugar
Method
Crush 1/2-3/4 of a cup of the berries, add a little water,
and sugar to sweeten. Bring mixture to a boil in a saucepan
and cook over low heat. Add a very thin cornstarch mixture
and continue cooking and stirring until mixture thickens and
clears. Cool this glaze.
Arrange the rest of the fruit neatly on top of the cream in
the pie shell. Pour the cooled glaze evenly over the fruit.
Chill the finished pie for 4 hours.
Notes
Canned pie filling may be used. The glaze need not be
thickened very much because it will thicken further as it
cools. The total of crushed fruit, sugar, and water for the
glaze before cooking should be about one cup. If necessary,
the fruit to go in the pie could be lightly sweetened. This
pie freezes well and should be served after freezing while
still just barely unfrozen.