Strawberry Pie

Well, I guess it is pie week.  I didn't mean it to be, but my husband had not made his mother's strawberry pie recipe this summer.  And, with summer rapidly fading, he wanted to go ahead and get this in.  

My husband's mother was German, and while the strawberries and glaze in this recipe will taste familiar, the crust may be new to you.  It is thick and almost cake like, and completely delicious.  The glaze is not her recipe, but one that I sort of cobbled together from several others.  She used a purchased glaze that we cannot find, so feel free to purchase your favorite if you don't want to make your own.  

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Strawberry Bars for National Strawberry Month

May is National Strawberry Month, and I have been wanting to try this idea for a while, so it seemed like the perfect time.  They are similar to the ever popular lemon bar, but with strawberries. And, I don't mean strawberries and lemons, I mean just strawberries.  Every recipe I have seen was a strawberry-lemon combination, which I am sure is delicious too, but I wanted just strawberries this time, so I came up with my own recipe from a combination of several others.  They are actually the color of the ones in the picture - kind of lavender-pink, so if you want really pink ones, you might want to add a little food coloring.

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