Vinegar Pie Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Mix the flour with 1/2 cup of sugar. Add the water gradually and cook on top of a double boiler for 15 minutes, stirring constantly, or until thickened.
• Combine the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar with the yolks and salt and mix well with a whisk until the sugar is dissolved. Add the hot flour mixture to the yolk mixture gradually, mixing all the time. Return to the double boiler and cook for about 3 minutes more or until the mixture is thick and smooth.
• Add the butter, extract, and vinegar. Mix well and remove from heat. Place a piece of plastic on top of this custard.
• Meanwhile, beat the egg whites until foamy and gradually add the 6 tablespoons sugar. Beat until a stiff, glossy peak is achieved.
• Pour the custard filling into the prebaked shell ( the custard should still be hot, if not, heat up a again before adding to shell). Top with the meringue. Spread the meringue all over the top of the pie, sealing to the edges of the crust. Place into the oven and bake until the meringue is a nice nut brown, about 15 minutes. Traditionally, this pie is served hot.

Steps:

• Combine sugar, flour, and salt in medium bowl.
• Beat eggs until very light, then add butter, vinegar, and hot water.
• Add dry ingredients and blend well.
• Cook over double boiler, stirring constantly until thick.
• Add 1/2 cup nuts.
• Pour into pie shell and sprinkle with remaining nuts.
• Supposed to be "one of the most delicious pies".

Steps:

• In medium saucepan mix together sugar, beaten egg yolks, vinegar (cider or white), flour and water.
• Cook over medium heat stirring constantly until thick.
• Remove from heat.
• Add lemon extract and butter.
• Continue to stir until butter has completely melted.
• Pour into baked pie crust.
• Top with meringue, made with left over egg whites, and bake in 350ºF pre-heated oven until golden brown.
• Let cool and serve.

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• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar, butter, vinegar and vanilla. Mix well. Pour into pie shell. Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes.

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• Serving Suggestion: Pint of fresh strawberries; or 1/2 pint raspberries or blackberries, for garnish
• In a medium bowl, whisk the cornstarch into the cream. Let rest for 1 minute, then whisk again. Whisk in the yolks, eggs, and vanilla.
• In a medium saucepan, bring the water, sugar, vinegar, and butter to a boil.
• While whisking constantly, slowly drizzle the hot liquid into the egg mixture. Return to the saucepan and, while whisking constantly and scraping the bottom of the pot, cook until tiny bubbles boil up, about 10 seconds. Strain the curd into a bowl and let cool to room temperature. Spread the cooled filling in the pie shell, then refrigerate for 2 hours.
• Decorate with berries, if you like.
• Pie Shell:
• 3 tablespoons solid vegetable shortening
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into pea-size bits
• 2 to 3 tablespoons ice water
• Nonstick vegetable spray, for coating pan
• Between 2 sheets of waxed paper, flatten the shortening out to 1/8-inch thickness. With a butter knife, score it into 1/2-inch squares. Freeze for 30 minutes, until stiff.
• Put the flour in a large bowl. Using an electric mixer, pastry blender, or your fingertips, work in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal. In the same manner, mix in the shortening squares. While sprinkling in the ice water, mix with your fingers just until the dough comes together in a ball. Pat it into a 3/4-inch-thick disk. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or overnight.
• Set a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F.
• Lightly coat a 9-inch pie pan with nonstick vegetable spray.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into an 11 1/2-inch circle about 1/8 inch thick. Fit it into a 9-inch pie plate. Trim the dough, leaving about a 1-inch overhang, then fold the overhang under itself and decoratively crimp it against the rim of the plate. Prick the dough all over with a fork. Freeze for 20 minutes.
• Line the pie shell with aluminum foil and weight down with dried beans or pie weights. Bake for 15 minutes. Remove the foil with the weights, lower the temperature to 350 degrees F and bake for 8 minutes longer, or until lightly tanned. Set on a rack to cool.
• When lemons were out of season, or just too expensive, millions of bakers figured out how to make a tart "curd-style" pie filling with vinegar. Cheap and always available, it turned out to be just the right stuff for adding some pucker to a pie. Jerry Lewis (yes, that Jerry Lewis) often reminisced about the wonderful vinegar pie that his grandma used to bake.
• O.K., this pie may sound a little...er, different, but don't be deterred. It was a real favorite a hundred years ago and if there ever was a pie that was deserving of re-discovery, this scrumptious old-time favorite is it. Of course Grandma Lewis didn't know about fancy-pant balsamic vinegar but that won't stop us from going upscale. Try it and get ready for a new-fangled flavor surprise. On its own, vinegar pie is truly amazing. Topped with fresh berries, it's the eighth wonder of the world.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• Mix all ingredients well.
• Pour into unbaked pie shell.
• Bake for 55-60 minutes.

Steps:

• Blend flour, sugar, and salt in processor. Add butter; using on/off turns, process until coarse meal forms. Add 8 tablespoons ice water and cider vinegar; blend until moist clumps form, adding more ice water by teaspoonfuls if dough is dry. Gather dough together. Turn dough out onto work surface; divide dough in half. Form each half into ball and flatten into disk. Wrap disks separately in plastic; refrigerate at least 1 hour. (Can be made ahead. Keep dough refrigerated up to 2 days, or enclose in resealable plastic bag and freeze up to 1 month, then thaw in refrigerator overnight. Soften slightly at room temperature before rolling out.)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• In a large saucepan, combine sugar, flour, and lemon rind. Mix well, then whisk in vinegar and water. Cook mixture over medium heat, stirring constantly, until it comes to a boil. Continue to boil and stir for 1 minute. Remove from heat.
• Place eggs in a medium bowl. Slowly whisk 1/2 cup of sugar mixture into eggs. Whisk egg mixture back into remaining sugar mixture. Stir in butter or margarine. Pour mixture into pastry shell.
• Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Reduce heat and bake 30 minutes more. Filling will still be liquidy but will firm as pie cools. Cool completely before serving.

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• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C.)
• In a large saucepan combine sugar, flour, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and salt. Mix well, then whisk in egg, vinegar, and water. Add butter and cook mixture over low heat until thick, stirring constantly. Pour mixture into pastry shell.
• Bake pastry in preheated oven for 3 minutes. Pour in filling and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until crust is brown on edges.

Steps:

• In the top of a double boiler, beat the egg yolks, well.
• Combine the flour, sugar, salt and spices and blend into the egg yolks.
• Add the vinegar and mix and then add the warm water.
• Simmer over boiling water for 25 minutes or until the mixture is thickened -- the water should just reach the bottom of the top pan.
• Stir in the butter and cool slightly, about 15-20 minutes, without stirring.
• Pour the warm filling into the baked shell.set aside to cool.
• Preheat the oven to 325°F.
• In a large mixing bowl, beat together the egg whites, salt and vinegar until soft peaks form.
• Gradually add the sugar, 1 tbsp at a time, continue beating until stiff peaks form.
• Sprinkle in the cornstarch just before the beating is completed. The peaks should not topple over when the beater is raised.
• Spread the meringue over the filling all the way to the edge of the pastry.
• Bake for 5-8 minutes, or until the meringue is golden brown.
• Cool the pie completely and then refrigerate.

Steps:

• Combine the flour, cornstarch, and salt in a large bowl. Scatter the fat on a large flour-dusted plate. Measure the vinegar into a 1-cup glass measuring cup. Add just enough cold water to equal a scant ⅓ cup. Refrigerate everything for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Transfer the dry ingredients to a food processor. Add all of the fat, then pulse the machine six or seven times, until the pieces of fat are roughly the size of small peas.
• Pour the vinegar-water mixture through the feed tube in a 7- or 8-second stream, pulsing the machine as you add it. Stop pulsing when the mixture is just starting to form larger clumps.
• Turn the dough out onto your work surface and pack it into a ball. Put the dough on a sheet of plastic wrap and flatten it into a 3/4-inch-thick disk. Wrap the disk and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before rolling.

Steps:

• Make pie shell:
• Roll out half of pastry dough (reserve remainder for another use) on a lightly floured surface with a floured rolling pin into a 12-inch round. Fit dough into tart pan and trim excess, leaving a 1/2-inch overhang. Fold overhang inward and press against side of pan to form a rim that extends 1/4 inch above pan. Prick bottom of shell all over with a fork and chill 15 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Line shell with foil and fill with pie weights. Bake in middle of oven until edge is pale golden and sides are set, about 20 minutes. Remove weights and foil and bake shell until bottom is golden, 8 to 10 minutes more.
• Make filling while shell bakes:
• Whisk together eggs and 1/4 cup sugar in a bowl until blended well. Whisk together flour and remaining 3/4 cup sugar in a 1-quart heavy saucepan, then whisk in water and vinegar. Bring to a boil, whisking until sugar is dissolved. Add to egg mixture in a slow stream, whisking constantly.
• Pour filling into saucepan and cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until filling coats back of spoon and registers 175°F on an instant-read thermometer, 12 to 15 minutes. (Do not boil.) Immediately pour filling into a 2-cup glass measure. If pie shell is not ready, cover surface of filling with a round of wax paper.
• Reduce oven temperature to 350°F, then pour hot filling into baked pie shell in middle of oven and cover rim of crust with a pie shield or foil (to prevent overbrowning). Bake pie until filling is set, 15 to 20 minutes, then cool completely in pan on a rack. Dust evenly with cinnamon.

Steps:

• In a double boiler, combine sugar and flour. Mix well, then whisk in vinegar, eggs, and water. Cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Just before removing from heat, stir in butter or margarine and lemon extract.
• Pour mixture into baked pastry shell. Chill before serving.

Steps:

• Place egg yolks in top of double boiler over medium heat. Add sugar and salt. Gradually add boiling water, stirring constantly.
• Add vinegar and cornstarch dissolved in the cold water. Cook over boiling water til thick and smooth, about 12 minutes. Stir to prevent scorching. Do not undercook or filling will have a raw taste.
• Remove from heat. Add lemon extract and stir til filling is smooth and blended, scraping sides of saucepan with a spatula.
• Pour hot filling into pie shell. Top lukewarm filling with meringue: Be sure the 3 egg whites are room temperature. Beat with 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar, 1/4 teaspoons salt, 1/2 teaspoons vanilla in mixer at medium speed only til frothy.
• Gradually add 6 tablespoons of sugar, beating at high speed until glossy peaks form.
• Spread meringue to edges of filling in shell to seal the crust. Mound the rest on top and distribute.
• Bake in 350°F oven 12-15 minutes, until meringue is lightly browned.
• Let cool at least 30 minutes before cutting. After 30 minutes, put the pie in the fridge until ready to eat.