Recipe: Muscadine Grape Pie

Muscadine Grape Pie

4 cups Florida Muscadine Grapes
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon Florida lemon juice
1 tablespoon orange rind (optional)
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
pastry for 9-inch lattice-top pie
2 tablespoons butter or margarine , melted

Deseed grapes, reserving juice. Mix grapes and remaining ingredients except pie crust and butter in bowl or blender container.

Let grape mixture sit for 15 minutes.

Pour into uncooked pie shell and top with lattice. Brush top with butter.

Place pie in preheated 450 degree oven, bake for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for additional 20 minutes.

Cool and serve plain or with whipped topping or vanilla ice cream.

Source: Florida Grape Growers Association