Dried Apricot Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 18 ounces dried apricots
• 1 3/4 cups water
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon orange liqueur
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 1 pastry for a double-crust 9-inch pie

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400°f.
• 2 slice the dried apricots in half and rinse them with water.
• 3 place them in a sauce pan with the water, bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes.
• 4 combine the cornstarch with the orange liqueur and about 1 tablespoon of the apricots' cooking liquid.
• 5 mix until smooth then stir into the cooked apricots.
• 6 add the sugar and combine.
• 7 pour mixture into the unbaked pie shell and seal with the top crust.
• 8 brush milk over top crust for color, if desired.
• 9 bake at 400°f for about 1 hour.
• 10 **please note: if your dried apricots are sweet, you may want to cut the amount of sugar from the 1 3/4 cups called for in the recipe to about 2/3 to 3/4 cup of sugar (or to your taste) to prevent the pie from being overly sweet. the dried apricots i use are quite tart/sour, so the 1 3/4 cups of sugar does not produce an overly sweet pie.