Elderberry/Apple Pie

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1972

  • About

A dessert that makes search for elderberries along fence rows pay

Ingredients

Pastry for 2-crust pie

  • 2 c. elderberries
  • c. chopped peeled tart apples
  • 1

Method

  • Wash and stem elderberries. (Hold berries in palm of hand and pull stems off with wire egg beater, the kind shaped like tennis racquet.)
  • Combine elderberries, apples, sugar, salt and tapioca, crushing berries with spoon.
  • Spoon mixture into pastry-lined 9" pie pan; dot with butter; top with pastry lattice.
  • Bake in hot oven (400°) 35 to 40 minut