Mock Cherry Pie

Ingredients

• pie crust

• 1 cup cranberries
• 1/2 cup seeded raisins, chopped
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1/2 cup boiling water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• pinch salt

Method

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Cut cranberries in half and add raisins.
3. Mix together sugar and flour, and stir into fruit.
4. Pour on boiling water.
5. Mix in vanilla and salt.
6. Put filling in a double pie crust.
7. Bake until crust slips in bottom of pan (about 25 minutes).

Source

Barkley family recipe.

Walnut* Tarts**

* this is a lie
** this is also a lie

The title is a lie, but it's what Janice's family calls these. They're really pecan cookies.

Ingredients

• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 2 cups ground pecans
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• dash cinnamon
• 1 cup vegetable shortening
• 2 eggs

Method

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease tart tins.
• Mix together all dry ingredients.
• Cut in shortening.
• Add eggs and knead well.
• Press 1 tablespoon of dough into each tart tin.
• Bake until cookies are golden brown (about 20 minutes).
• Remove from oven.
• While cookies are still warm, remove from tins and roll in white sugar.
• Cool on wire rack.

Source

Waldbauer family recipe.