1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups boiling water
1/3 cup vinegar
1/3 cup cornstarch
Dash of nutmeg
3 eggs
1 tablespoon butter
Baked 8" or 9" pie shell
Separate eggs and beat the three egg yolks together. Stir the first five ingredients
together and cook until clear and thick. Stir half the mixture into three beaten egg
yolks; add mixture to remaining mix in saucepan and stir until combined; let rest off
burner for one minute. Stir in a tablespoon of butter until melted. Pour into a baked pie
shell.
Barnes writes that Mrs. Russell Wood, Kalkaska, cooked vinegar pie in northern Michigan
lumber camps. This recipe is adapted from one she used. Her recipe directions conclude,
"If you wish to be fancy, just in case the girls are going to drop in, make the usual
meringue [using the left-over egg whites]. (But lumberjacks were happy to have the pie
without the fringe on top.)"
Adapted from: Barnes, Al. Vinegar Pie and Other Tales of the Grand
Traverse Region. Traverse City, MI: Horizon Books, 1971.
Nice project to do together
