My Grandfather’s Cinnamon-Prune Pie

This is a simple tart, filled with a custard heavily seasoned with cinnamon and topped with prunes. People shy away from prunes in America, but I love them. When I was growing up my grandfather Michel, who lived with us on the farm, made dried prunes himself, and we always had some sort of fruit at the end of a meal. I have such great memories of using prunes. In this pie, we would stew them to plump them up and use the flavorful stewing liquid instead of milk to