Fourth of July Recipes
"Old Grandma Recipes"
Today's old family recipe is my grandma Marion's Strawberry Pie. It's been passed down from generation to generation. Now, it's not like you can't find this recipe everywhere nowadays but it's still a good one. Perfect for celebrating this 4th with your friends and family and kids love it!
Strawberry Pie
Ingredients
1 Package of strawberries or 6 cups
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Water
Pinch of Salt
4 Tbsp cornstarch
1 Tbsp lemon juice
Step one
Buy or make a pie crust from scratch
Game plan: The dough can be made and baked up to 1 day ahead.
For quicker prep, you can make the dough in a food processor. Add all of the dry ingredients and pulse to combine. Add the butter and pulse until it’s in pea-size pieces. Drizzle in 3 tablespoons of ice water and pulse again. Add more ice water if the dough seems too dry, shape it into a disk, wrap it up, and refrigerate.
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 8 tablespoons cold unsalted butter (1 stick), cut into small pieces
- 4 to 5 tablespoons ice water
Combine the flour, salt, and sugar in a large bowl and stir briefly until the mixture is aerated. Using a pastry blender or your fingers, cut the butter into the dry ingredients until it’s in pea-size pieces that are slightly yellow in color, about 4 to 5 minutes.
- Drizzle in 4 tablespoons of the ice water and mix just until the dough comes together. (Add the last tablespoon of ice water if necessary, but don’t overwork the dough or it’ll become tough.)
- Shape the dough into a flat disk, cover it with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, then use it in the pie or tart recipe of your choice.
- Bake Pie Crust in the oven. Preheated to 450 for 10-15 mins or until lightly brown.
Filling
- Wash and slice strawberries and place in pie crust after it has baked and cooled.
- Combine sugar, water, cornstarch and lemon juice in a pot and bring to a boil. Stir consistently
- Once the mix has cooled a little, pour over strawberries in baked pie crust.
- Place in the ice box to chill, after chilled remove and add whip cream to the top.
**Extra ideas**
you can add blueberries to the top and make it more colorful or make a flag or a fun happy face for fourth of July celebrating.
Need a fun drink to go with that? I found a crazy one!
This recipe is either real old or real gross because I can't find it anywhere. Grapes are good, though, so I'm going to give it a shot!
Grape Juice Polly
Ingredients
1/2 Cup Instant Tapioca
1 1/4 Cup Hot Water
2/3 Cup Sugar
1/2 Cup Grape Juice
1/2 Cup Whip Cream
- Combine tapioca, hot water, and sugar in pot and cook on medium until the mixer is clear.
- Once mixer is clear, add grape juice
- Let stand until cold and fold in 1/2 cup whipped cream or more.
Serve over ice or chilled. You can also add a scoop of vanilla ice cream in the glass and pour Grape Juice Polly over. Yum!!
