Recipe for cooking French Crunch Peach Pie

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French Crunch Peach Pie

Posted by kdipaolo at recipegoldmine.com 7/6/01 9:27:56 pm

1 pastry for single crust pie
2 lrg. eggs
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 c. sugar
45 oz. peach slices in juice, 1 (29 ounce) can
    plus 1 (16 ounce) can, drained
1 c. vanilla wafer cookies, about 22, crushed
1/2 c. toasted almonds, chopped
1/4 c. melted butter

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Bake pastry for 5 mins.. Meanwhile beat eggs and lemon juice until well blended, stir in sugar, mix well.

Fold in peaches and turn mixture into prepared, partially baked pie shell.

Stir together vanilla wafer crumbs, almonds and butter. Sprinkle topping over pie evenly. Cover edge of pie with foil. Reduce heat to 375 degrees F and bake for 20 mins..

Remove foil and bake another 20-25 mins. or until filling is set in center. Cool on wire rack before serving.