Lemon Raisin Pie Recipes

Steps:

• Combine raisins and water in a small saucepan. Boil 5 minutes. Blend brown sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, and salt together; add to hot raisins. Cook and stir until syrup is clear. Remove from heat, and stir in vinegar and butter or margarine. Cool slightly.
• Turn filling into a pastry lined pan. Cover with top crust. Seal edges, and cut slits in the top crust.
• Bake at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) for 30 to 35 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• In a medium saucepan, mix together lemon juice, lemon rind, orange juice, orange rind, 1 1/4 cup water, sugar, and raisins. Bring to a boil over low heat, stirring occasionally.
• In a small bowl, mix flour and 1/2 cup water to a smooth paste. Slowly stir into raisin mixture. Cook an additional 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Pour mixture into pastry-lined pan. Cover with top crust. Seal edges and cut steam vents in top.
• Bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes, until crust is golden brown.

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, combine sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Beat eggs, and add with 1 1/2 cups sour cream, raisins, and lemon juice to the saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thickened. Pour custard into pie shell. Cool.
• Spread remaining 1/2 cup sour cream over cooled filling. Refrigerate several hours, until thoroughly chilled.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F ( 220 degrees C).
• Wash raisins carefully. Cook in boiling water until tender. Mix flour and sugar, and add to cooked raisins. Stir until mixtures thickens. Remove from heat, and add lemon juice, lemon rind, and nuts. Cool slightly.
• Roll out dough, and fit to a 9 inch pie pan. Spoon filling into the shell. Cover with top crust, crimp the edges, and cut a couple slashes in the top.
• Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until crust is golden brown.

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine raisins and water. Bring to a boil; cook 2 minutes. Add sugars and salt; cook until sugars are dissolved. Combine cornstarch and cold water until smooth; gradually stir into the pan. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly. Remove from the heat; stir in the juices, zests and extract., Roll out half of the pie dough to fit a 9-in. pie plate; transfer to pie plate. Fill with raisin mixture. Dot with butter., Roll out remaining dough; make a lattice crust. Trim, seal and flute edge. Bake at 375° for 35-40 minutes or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly, covering edge with foil during the last 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Refrigerate leftovers.

Steps:

• Prepare and LIGHTLY bake a pie shell; cool.
• In a small bowl soak raisins and lemon zest in the lemon juice for about 10 minutes; add in the nuts.
• Using an electric mixer, cream butter, both sugars, cinnamon and salt until light and fluffy (about 3-4 minutes).
• Add in eggs, and beat for about 30 seconds (the mixture will look curdled until it heats up in the oven).
• Stir in the raisin mixture, and mix with a wooden spoon until combine.
• Pour the filling into the semi-baked pie shell.
• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Set oven rack to center position, and bake pie for about 35-40 minutes, or until the top is set and light golden and darker golden around the edges (it will feel somewhat spongy to the touch).
• Cool completely on a wire rack before serving.

Steps:

• Combine the raisins, water, and lemon juice in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat and boil for about 20 minutes, until the raisins are plump. Drain the raisins and return them to the saucepan.
• Combine the corn syrup, flour, and sugar, mix well, then add to the raisins and cook over medium-low heat for about 25 minutes, until thick. Look for a stiff consistency similar to mincemeat, with a thick, caramel-like sauce. Remove from the heat and stir in the nuts. Let cool.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 9-inch pie plate with 1 rolled-out crust. Spread the filling evenly in the crust. Brush the rim of the crust with the egg wash or water, cover with the second rolled-out crust, seal and flute or crimp the edges, and cut a few steam vents in the top. Brush the top with egg wash if you like.
• Bake for 30 minutes, until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack for about 2 hours before slicing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Press pie crust into a 9-inch pie pan. Brush crust with enough egg white to coat with a thin layer.
• Cook in the preheated oven until golden brown, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove crust from oven and cool. Decrease oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Cook and stir raspberries in a saucepan over medium heat until raspberries start to break down, 5 to 10 minutes. Stir 1 tablespoon cornstarch into raspberries until cornstarch is dissolved and mixture is thickened, 2 to 3 minutes. Spoon raspberry mixture into pie crust.
• Combine 1 cup white sugar and 1/4 cup cornstarch in a saucepan; gradually stir in water and 1/2 cup lemon juice until smooth. Stir egg yolks into sugar mixture; bring to a boil. Cook sugar-egg mixture at a boil, stirring constantly, until smooth, about 1 minute. Remove saucepan from heat. Stir lemon pulp, remaining 1/4 cup lemon juice, and butter into sugar-egg mixture; pour over raspberry mixture.
• Beat 3 egg whites in a small bowl using an electric mixer on high speed until foamy. Gradually beat 1/3 cup white sugar into egg whites until stiff peaks form. Spread egg white mixture over lemon filling, completely sealing egg mixture onto edges of crust.
• Bake in the preheated oven until meringue is golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool pie to room temperature on a wire rack, about 30 minutes. Refrigerate pie until completely chilled, about 3 hours.

Steps:

• Wash raisins in cool water and drain. Place raisins and boiling water in a saucepan and cook until raisins plump.
• Blend brown sugar with flour and add to the raisin mixture. Cook over low heat until thickened, stirring frequently. Remove from heat.
• Add lemon rind, lemon juice and pinch of salt. Cool. Stir.
• Line deep nine-inch pie plate with pastry.
• Brush bottom of pastry with beaten egg white (keeps bottom of pie from getting soggy).
• Pour in cooled filling.
• Add top crust and seal edges.
• Make several steam vents with a knife in the top pastry.
• Decorate top of pie with pastry cut outs, using cookie cutters for shapes, if desired.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Bake pie 40 to 50 minutes until nicely browned.