Cape Cod Cranberry “Linzer” Pie

Preparation info
  • Makes one 9- or 9½ inch pie to serve about

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Richard Sax

Published 1994

  • About

Dip into old American cookbooks and cranberry pies are right up there in popularity with apple, pumpkin, mincemeat and rhubarb. Combined with sweet apples in a filling, cranberries lend bright color and tart character to a pie. This recipe for autumn combines cranberries, apples, raisins and ginger. It’s not made with an authentic linzer dough, but the look of the pie (or tartlets) is reminiscent of that Austrian classic. The filling looks great peeking through the lattice and makes beautif