American Strawberry Pie

Yield: 8 servings

3/4 cups sugar

1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoons all-purpose flour

3 cups milk

3 egg yolks, lightly beaten

2 tablespoons butter or margarine

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2 pints heavy cream

1 1/2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar

1 (9 inch) pie shell, baked

1 pint fresh strawberries, halved

1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

Instructions

In a 3-qt. saucepan, combine sugar, flour and salt. Add milk, stirring until smooth. Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened. Stir in small amount of milk mixture into yolks, then return all to saucepan.

2 minutes. Remove from the heat; stir in butter and vanilla. Cool

20 minutes. Pour into pie shell; chill several hours until firm. Whip cream and sugar; spread half over pie filling.

Arrange berries on cream. Dollop or pipe remaining cream around edge of pie.