Recipe - Picnic Pie With Cheese And Ham

2 cup Ham, minced , cooked
15 ounce Cheese, cottage, small
curd, drained
15 ounce Cheese, ricotta
2/3 cup Cheese, parmesan, grated
3 lg Eggs, beaten
One half cup Crumbs, bread, dried
One half cup Parsley, minced
One fourth cup Onion, minced
1 teaspoon Seasoning, Italian, dried
Salt (to taste)
Pepper (to taste)
1 ds Sauce, red pepper
1 lg Egg yolk, beaten, for the
glaze

In a large bowl, mixed the inchsized minced ham, and add the cottage
cheese, ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese, beaten egg yolks, Italian spices,
salt and pepper and stir.

Add toasted bread crumbs, parsley, and onion and mix well.

In a 9" springform pan, place sufficient pie crust to coat the inside of
the pan. Put the filling into this pie crust and then top with a second
crust.

Tuck the edges of the pie crust into the inside of the spring form pan
and decorate the top crust with dough cutouts of flowers, or pigs, or
whatever.

Coat the outer crust with beaten egg yolk and bake.

Bake in a 375 F oven for 1 hour. Let cool to room temperature before
removing from the springform pan.

Source: "Heirloom Recipes" by Marcia Adams, 1994

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini