"Yummy" Strawberry Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (3 oz.) pkg. strawberry flavored gelatin
1/4 c. sugar
3/4 c. hot water
9-inch single crust baked pie shell
3 c. whipped topping
1 1/2 c. sliced fresh strawberries or 12 oz. pkg. frozen strawberries

Preparation

Mix the strawberry gelatin with sugar in a small bowl.
Heat 3/4 cup water in a saucepan until water is very hot.
Pour the water over gelatin and sugar.
Stir the gelatin with a spoon to dissolve it.
Put the bowl in refrigerator about 20 minutes, so that gelatin will thicken, but not \"set.\"
Fold 3 cups of topping and gelatin together.
Mix the strawberries into the pie filling (gelatin mixture) with a spoon.
Pour into a cooled baked pie crust.
Put in refrigerator.
Chill 1 to 2 hours.