Fresh Strawberry Pie with Special Shortbread Crust

Most fresh strawberry pies call for a regular pie pastry or a graham cracker crust. This crust is similar to shortbread and complements the fresh strawberries wonderfully! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! My mom would make this pie every summer, and it was gone before you could blink, it's THAT good!

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Yields: 1 pie

Ingredients

• Crust

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1  cup flour
• 2  tablespoons granulated sugar

• Filling

• 16  ounces fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced,approximately

• Glaze

• 1 (3 ounce) package strawberry Jell-O gelatin dessert
• 3⁄4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 1⁄2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 3⁄4 cups boiling water
• 2  tablespoons butter

Directions

1. Pre-heat oven to 375.
2. Mix together crust ingredients til crumbly, and press into a 10" pie plate with floured fingers.
3. Bake empty crust in pre-heated oven for 12-15 minutes, (until very lightly browned on edges).
4. Remove from oven and cool completely.
5. While the crust is cooling, make the glaze by mixing together the dry ingredients in a pot, then add the boiling water, and cook until the glaze is thickened and clear.
6. (I use a whisk and stir constantly) Remove the glaze from heat.
7. Add the butter and stir into the glaze until melted.
8. Cool the glaze.
9. While the glaze is cooling, if your crust is cool enough, add your sliced strawberries to the crust.
10. When the glaze is cool, pour it over the sliced strawberries in the pie crust, and chill completely in the fridge until the glaze sets firmly.