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Strawberry Pie

1 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 4 tablespoons shortening 1/4 cup cold water 1 quart strawberries Sift dry ingredients together; rub in shortening very lightly with finger tips; add water slowly, just enough to make a stiff dough. Roll out on floured board and use for bottom crust of pie, being careful to fold the paste well over the edge of pie plate. Bake in hot oven 12 to 15 minutes. It glazed crust is desired, brush edges after baking with boiling hot syrup (2 tablespoons corn syrup and one tablespoon water) and return to oven for one or two minutes until syrup hardens. Fill the baked crust with fresh selected hulled strawberries and cover with strawberry syrup made as follows: Add 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup ripe selected strawberries to 2 cups boiling water; bring to a boil and strain; add one tablespoon corn starch which has been mixed with a little cold water. Cook over hot fire for a minute or two, stirring constantly; remove from fire and beat hard; return to slow fire, cook very gently until thick. Pour while hot over strawberries which have been put into pie crust. This is very good served either hot or cold.