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                              Deep Plum Pie

Recipe By     : The Canadiana Cookbook/Mme Jehane Benoit
Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Fruit                            Pies & Pastry
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  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  12                    Blue plums, halved and pitted; up to 16
     1/2  c             Brown sugar
     1/2  c             White sugar
     1/4  ts            Ground cloves -OR-
     1/2  ts            Cardamom
   1      pinch         Salt
   2      tb            Quick-cooking tapioca
   2      tb            Lemon juice
   1      tb            Butter
                        Pastry for one crust pie

Fill a 9x9x2" baking dish about 3/4 full with the plums places cut
side down. Combine the sugar, cloves or cardamom, salt and tapioca and
sprinkle over the fruit. Shake the dish slightly so that the sugar will
sift down through the fruit. Sprinkle with the lemon juice and dot with the
butter. Bake at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes.

Roll the pastry and cut nine 3" circles from it. Remove the pie from the
oven and place the circles of pastry over the fruit in a slightly
overlapping design. Return the pie to the oven and bake for an additional
20 minutes or until the fruit is tender and the pastry brown.  Serve warm
or cold.

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NOTES: When the first British Columbia plums arrive on the market, I make
this pie. If I'm in a hurry, I replace the pastry circles with a big
round ball of vanilla ice cream set over the slightly warm plum mixture.