Fresh Cherry Pie

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 pastry for double-crust pie (unbaked)
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 1/3 cup flour (either kind)
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3 drops almond extract (optional)
• 4 cups pitted tart cherries
• 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine

Recipe

• 1 combine sugar,flour and salt.
• 2 add almond extract to cherries and toss with sugar flour mixture to mix well.
• 3 pour into pastry lined 9 inch pie pan.
• 4 put on top crust.
• 5 bake at 400 for about 40 minutes.
• 6 if edges brown too much cover it with aluminum foil.
• 7 the syrup does bubble and may spill over a little so i set the pie on a cookie sheet then baked it.