Partridge In A Pear Tree Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. (12 oz.) cranberries
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 (8 1/2 oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained, reserve syrup
pastry for 9-inch pie
3 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 (8 oz.) can pear halves, drained and cut in halves
sugar

Preparation

Cook cranberries, 1 1/2 cups sugar, the pineapple and 1/4 cup of the reserved syrup, stirring constantly, until cranberries are tender about 5 minutes.
Cool; prepare pastry.
Mix flour, salt and cinnamon.
Stir into cranberry mixture.
Pour into pastry lined pie plate.
Gently press pear halves spoke fashion onto cranberry mixture.
Heat oven to 400\u00b0.
After rolling pastry for top crust put partridge leaf and pear shapes.
Sprinkle with sugar if desired.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake until pastry cut outs and pie crust are golden brown 7 to 10 minutes for cut outs and about 40 for pie.
Arrange cut outs on pie.