Fresh Cherry Pie

I have never made a fresh cherry pie until I found this old farm journal recipe.It is sooo good.I will be making it a lot.

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Yields: 1 pie

Ingredients

• 1  pastry for double-crust pie (unbaked)
• 1 1⁄3 cups sugar
• 1⁄3 cup flour (either kind)
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 3  drops  almond extract (optional)
• 4  cups  pitted tart cherries
• 2  tablespoons butter or 2  tablespoons margarine

Directions

1. Combine sugar,flour and salt.
2. Add almond extract to cherries and toss with sugar flour mixture to mix well.
3. Pour into pastry lined 9 inch pie pan.
4. Put on top crust.
5. Bake at 400 for about 40 minutes.
6. If edges brown too much cover it with aluminum foil.
7. The syrup does bubble and may spill over a little so I set the pie on a cookie sheet then baked it.