Sausage Pie (Easter Pie) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

CRUST
3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons shortening
2 eggs
3/4 cup ice water (added as needed to form crust)
FILLING
1 1/2 lbs Italian sausage (cooked and cooled)
1 lb basket cheese
9 eggs
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon sausage pan dripping

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350.
Prepare crust as you would for any pie. Divide the pastry into 2 balls. Roll out one ball of pastry and put into a 9in pie plate. Set other ball of dough aside until filling is done.
Cut the basket cheese into about 1/2in squares and put into a large mixing bowl with cooked and cooled sausage. Beat the 9 eggs, sausage grease and parmesan cheese until combined. Mix the egg mixture into the sausage and cheese mixture until well combined. Pour into the pie plate.
Roll out other dough ball the was set aside and put it on top the sausgae egg mixture and close the edges with a fork.
Bake at 350 for about an hour and the crust is golden brown.