Butterscotch Pie Recipe with a Lard Crust

Use lard to make the perfect pie crust for a sweet butterscotch meringue pie.

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by Flickr/Lola Torrado
15 min COOK TIME
1 double crusted pie SERVINGS

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2/3 cups lard
  • 1/3 cup milk

Filling and Meringue

  • 4 large eggs, separated at room temperature
  • pinch of salt
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/4cup butter
  • 1 cup packed /brown /sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 3 cups milk
  • 4 egg whites
  • 1/2 sugar

Directions

  • Crust: Cut flour, salt and lard together.
  • Add milk to make dough, roll out to fit pie tin. (Cut recipe in half for the butterscotch.)
  • Filling: Beat egg yolks and half cup milk then add remaining milk, flour, sugar, salt and butter.
  • Cook on medium heat until it bubbles. Cool slightly, add vanilla. Cool and put in cooked pie shell.
  • Meringue: Beat egg whites until soft peaks form then gradually add sugar and beat until stiff.
  • Spread to edges of filling.
  • Bake 350* for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
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For many of us, our favorite memories include eating pie at Grandma’s house. Growing up, there always seemed to be a pie cooling on the windowsill. Even my mother’s generation followed the same tradition, that a meal just wasn’t complete without pie.

This delectable dessert is about as American as you can get. Even my hometown of Union City, Mich., has a sign on every street as you enter town proclaiming that this quaint village is “A slice of American pie.” A friend and I even have a friendly rivalry because whoever bakes one first, the other one knows she will soon have to follow because our guys talk and when one of them gets pie, the other one feels so entitled.

butterscotch pie with slices taken out

This is a story of pie. I have made countless but this time when I made a butterscotch pie, I got a surprise lesson in shortening to go along with the story behind butterscotch pie for me.

Butterscotch is Ron’s favorite kind of pie. This time when he asked for it, he threw me for a loop. “Grammy always made her crusts out of lard–can’t you try one like that?” he asked.

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