Sausage Pie (Easter Pie)

Abbey212's Note:

This is the traditional family recipe from my grandmother. Although when I made it, I added a little easter ham in it as well for some extra flavor. This recipe is very very tasty, but not the most figure friendly dish. This is a large recipe which is freezable. I froze about 1/2 the recipe for a few months later and it still tasted just as good.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 30 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Serves: 15-20

Yield: 1.0 pie

CRUST

• 3 cups flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 5 tablespoons shortening
• 2 eggs
• ¾ cup ice water (added as needed to form crust)

FILLING

• 1 ½ lbs Italian sausage (cooked and cooled)
• 1 lb basket cheese
• 9 eggs
• ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
• 1 tablespoon sausage pan dripping

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Prepare crust as you would for any pie. Divide the pastry into 2 balls. Roll out one ball of pastry and put into a 9in pie plate. Set other ball of dough aside until filling is done.
3. Cut the basket cheese into about 1/2in squares and put into a large mixing bowl with cooked and cooled sausage. Beat the 9 eggs, sausage grease and parmesan cheese until combined. Mix the egg mixture into the sausage and cheese mixture until well combined. Pour into the pie plate.
4. Roll out other dough ball the was set aside and put it on top the sausgae egg mixture and close the edges with a fork.
5. Bake at 350 for about an hour and the crust is golden brown.