Maple Pie Recipe

Maple Pie – a close cousin to butter tarts, sugar pie and even a southern pecan pie. This rich maple flavoured filling in a flakey butter cry pastry is perfect for Canada Day or even for Thanksgiving or at the Maple I based this maple pie recipe on an old recipe for sugar pie that I made many years ago. Since it’s the Canada Day long weekend, I decided to put a Canuck twist on it by using part maple syrup instead of the blend of brown and white sugars in the original recipe. I hoped that this balance would not use too much liquid sugar in the pie and would help it set better. I thought that a whole cup of maple syrup should be sufficient to carry the maple flavour in the filling through and it worked out fine with the brown…