DELICIOUS BEAN PIE RECIPE

Bean Pie Recipe

2 cups Navy Beans (cooked)
4 Eggs
1 14 oz. can evaporated milk
1 stick butter
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 T. Flour
2 cups Sugar
2 T. Vanilla

Cook beans until soft. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In electric blender, blend beans, butter, milk, eggs, nutmeg and flour about 2 minutes on medium speed. Pour mixture into a large mixing bowl. Add sugar and vanilla. Mix well. Pour into pie shells. Bake about one hour. Until, golden brown. Makes 2 or 3 Bean Pies.
Tip: 5 minutes after removing pies from oven, cover with plastic wrap that clings.


PIE CRUST RECIPE

2 Cups Unbleached or Finely Ground Whole Wheat Flour
1 Teaspoon Salt
3/4 Cups Crisco Shortening
5 Tablespoons Cold Water

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Makes Two Pie Crusts

Mix Flour and salt in bowl. Cut in Crisco using pastry blender or two knives, until all flour is just blended to form pea-sized chunks. Sprinkle water, one Tablespoon at a time. Toss lightly with for until dough will form a ball. Divide dough into two parts. Press between hands to form two 5- to 6-inch patties. Set aside one pattie/ With rolling pin, roll out the crust pattie between two pieces of unfloured plastic wrap, into a circle the size of an upside-down pie pan. Remove top piece of plastic wrap. Use the bottom piece of plastic wrap to lift the crust and turn it into the pie pan. While plastic wrap is still covering crust, gently press crust to fit the pan. Remove the other pie of plastic wrap. Roll out the other pie crust pattie the same way.