NORTH COUNTRY MAPLE CREAM PIE
Ingredients
- 1 unbaked deep 9-inch pie shell
- 1½ cups cream
- 4 eggs well-beaten
- ½ cup maple syrup
- dash of salt
Optional Topping
- 1 cup heavy cream
- ¼ cup granulated maple sugar
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400°.
- Prick the bottom of the pie shell with a fork and press a piece of aluminum foil into it.
- Bake 5-6 minutes, remove foil, and bake 3-4 minutes more, or until crust is BARELY beginning to brown.
- Remove from oven and cool; reduce oven heat to 325°.
- Scald cream.
- Combine eggs and maple syrup and VERY slowly pour cream into the egg mixture, stirring vigorously as you pour.
- Add salt and pour into semi-baked crust.
- Bake 30 minutes, until pie is set (but still a bit jiggly in center).
- Remove from oven and cool.
- Whip cream, adding granulated maple sugar as it stiffens. (Sifted light brown sugar may be substituted.)
- Spread flavored whipped cream on cooled pie,
