Sour Cream Raisin Pie

A vintage recipe for sour cream and raisin pie with warm spices, pecans (or walnuts) and whipped cream topping. Perfect for Thanksgiving!

Husband has often talked about a cake his mom used to make called Boiled Raisin Cake. I asked her about it once while we were up for a visit and she told me it was a bit of this and a pinch of that and you cook it till it looks just so. And since I was in another country, had half a bottle of wine in me and was on vacation mode, I didn't retain much of the conversation.

So I decided to look through a bunch of my old cookbooks to see what I could find. I love any excuse to pull out my collection. I have a box of old community and church cookbooks from all over with yellowed pages and missing covers. I love looking at recipes with ingredients like oleo and sweet milk. You can’t find that kind of nostalgia on the internet.

I didn't find what I was looking for but I did find something called a Sour Cream Raisin Pie. I kept trying to ignore the pie because I was after a cake but I couldn't get it out of my mind.

The sour cream cooks up almost like a caramel and the raisins plump up and get all lovely and the whole thing is wrapped in a warm blanket of cinnamon and nutmeg.

I had to try it.

I found several recipes and while they all had the same basic ingredients, the amounts varied greatly. And so did the cooking method. Some cooked on the stove and some baked in the oven. I hashed out the one below and went for it. And I’m so glad I did because this pie is amazing! And I love what happens to the sour cream when you cook it with sugar on the stove. I see more of that combo in my future fo sho!

If you want to make something different for Thanksgiving or Christmas, definitely give this vintage pie a try. It has all the warm notes of a pumpkin or apple pie so it’ll feel like the holidays but it won’t be the same-ol’, same-ol’!

I saw recipes with meringue and without and decided to just top mine with cool whip. And before you get all preachy at me about cool whip, here’s my 2-cents on the topic… real whipped cream doesn't stay whipped forever so if I know something I’m making is going to spend a few days in the fridge before we’ll eat it all, I use cool whip. If I’m serving guests, I’ll usually use real whipped cream since it will all be eaten immediately.

Sour Cream Raisin Pie

Yield: 2 Pies

Author: Mandy Rivers | South Your Mouth

prep time: 10 Mcook time: 15 Mtotal time: 25 M

A vintage recipe for sour cream and raisin pie with warm spices, pecans (or walnuts) and whipped cream topping. Perfect for Thanksgiving!

ingredients:

• 2 pie pastries
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups sour cream
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 12-oz. box raisins, (approx. 2 cups)
• 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
• 1 8-oz carton cool whip
• Additional cinnamon for dusting

instructions:

How to cook Sour Cream Raisin Pie

1. Line 2 9-inch deep dish pie plates with pie pastries then cook per recipe instructions or package instructions. Set aside.
2. Combine sugar, sour cream, eggs, flour, vanilla, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large saucepan and stir well until combined and smooth.
3. Add raisins then stir until combined. Heat and stir over medium heat until slightly boiling. Once slightly boiling, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes or until mixture has thickened.
4. Stir in nuts then divide filling evenly into pie shells. Cool for 20 minutes then refrigerate, uncovered, until cold. Once cold, top each pie evenly with cool whip then dust with cinnamon.
5. Cover and refrigerate to store.

NOTES:

I usually just use the ready-made refrigerated pie pastry crusts!
3 regular pie pastries can be used instead of 2 deep-dish.

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