Green Tomato Pie

(Tastes like apple pie)

• 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie
• 4 cups sliced or chopped green tomatoes
• ¼ cup vinegar or lemon juice
• 1 ¾ cup sugar
• ¼ teas salt
• ¼ cup flour
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 tablespoon butter

Directions

Put tomatoes and vinegar or lemon juice in med sauce pan. Set aside for ten minutes. Mix sugar, salt, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and butter together. Add to sauce pan and simmer on low until tomatoes soften and mix thickens. Let cool 10 minutes. Pour into pastry lined dish. Cover with second crust, fluting edges. Cut three or four slits in top to allow steam to escape. Bake at 375 degrees F for 35 minutes.

To prevent pie crust edges from burning make a 24inch by 3inch strip of foil to cover pie crust EDGES ONLY. Lightly crimp the foil around crust edges, and then remove foil for the last ten minutes.}

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