*One of Mary Myrick’s best recipes*

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup cold water
• 1 Tbs. cornstarch
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 Tbs. strawberry-flavored Jell-O powder (1/2 pkg.)
• Strawberries for one pie (about 1 qt.)
• 1 ready to use crumb pie crust (or pre-baked pie shell)

Cook the water, sugar and cornstarch in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture becomes thickened and clear. Remove from heat and stir in the dry gelatin powder. Set aside while you rinse and cap the strawberries. Place the strawberries tip side up on paper towel as you cap them. When the strawberries are prepared place them in the pie crust, using as many whole strawberries as possible and then slice or cut into chunks the remaining berries to fill in. Ladle the cooked mixture evenly over the strawberries. Refrigerate until set. Serve with whipped cream or Cool Whip topping (original or Strawberry flavor).

This is very similar to the famous Shoney’s pie. You can use either the shortbread or graham ready to use crumb crusts (such as Keebler’s). I suppose the chocolate flavor would be good too. The clear plastic part of the package makes a great cover when turned upside down. The reason for placing the hulled berries on the paper towel is to dry them some. If they still seem quite wet, I dab them a little with a dry paper towel before placing them in the pie shell.

I use the same recipe substituting peach flavored Jell-O and fresh sliced peaches to make peach pie.