Partridge In A Pear Tree Pie

Ingredients

• 3 c 12 oz cranberries
• 1 12 c sugar
• 1 8 12 oz can crushed pineapple drained reserve syrup
• pastry for 9-inch pie
• 3 Tbsp all-purpose flour
• 14 tsp salt
• 14 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 8 oz can pear halves drained and cut in halves
• sugar

Directions

1. Cook cranberries 1 12 cups sugar the pineapple and 14 cup of the reserved syrup stirring constantly until cranberries are tender about 5 minutes
2. Cool prepare pastry
3. Mix flour salt and cinnamon
4. Stir into cranberry mixture
5. Pour into pastry lined pie plate
6. Gently press pear halves spoke fashion onto cranberry mixture
7. Heat oven to 400
8. After rolling pastry for top crust put partridge leaf and pear shapes
9. Sprinkle with sugar if desired
10. Place on ungreased cookie sheet
11. Bake until pastry cut outs and pie crust are golden brown 7 to 10 minutes for cut outs and about 40 for pie
12. Arrange cut outs on pie