Is there a good place to buy a raisin pie in NYC?

[Olney Blue]

My hubbie and I are going to be there this weekend, and he has been craving one!

[trof]

1. Never heard of raisin pie. Mincemeat?

Don't know anyway, so no help here.
Sorry.

[Olney Blue]

2. No- not the same as mincemeat! It's made with real raisins.

Thanks, anyway. :hi:

[matcom]

3. Olive Garden - Times Square

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[Olney Blue]

12. They don't use garlic crusts do they?

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:rofl:

[grasswire]

4. mmmmm...raisin pie!

What an old-fashioned treat. You could make one, of course. It's easy to do.

[Olney Blue]

7. I did see a recipe on the internet and it looks easy. We were going to be in NYC

and I thought I would take a chance that we could buy one on our mini-vacation.

[Karenca]

5. No- Sorry but raisin pies are not indigenous to NYC. nt

[Olney Blue]

6. I know- but NYC is such a smorgasbord of food- thought there might be

a neat bakery or restaurant someone could recommend.

:hi:

[Karenca]

8. Yes, NYC is -- and being that it is, you probably could find one.

I've never heard of it, and I've lived here my entire life. Is it a European dessert?
If it's a European specialty, I'm sure you could locate it in a bakery that specializes in
cakes/pies from whatever country it's from.

[Olney Blue]

10. Good question. I think it has Southern roots here, but I'm not sure.

My mother (from New Mexico) used to bake them in Alabama, and my husbands mom (from Utah) also baked them, but had ancestors from Tennessee.

Who knows! But they are very good. :9

[Karenca]

9. OK, Raisin Pie is a traditional Southern recipe --So here's where you might

find one:

Magnolia Bakery in the West Village

or

One of the several Southern-style bakeries in Haarlem.

[Olney Blue]

11. Thanks, Karenca!

Good ideas.

[grasswire]

13. Martha's recipe

1 1/2 cups golden raisins
1 1/2 cups dark raisins
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
Grated zest of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

Combine dark and golden raisins in a large bowl, cover with boiling water, and let soak for 15 minutes. Drain in a colander, discarding water, and return raisins to bowl. Add sugar, flour, lemon zest, and lemon juice to the raisins. Mix thoroughly, and set the mixture aside to thicken for about 10 minutes. Pour into pie shell and cover with dough.

Bake twenty minutes at 425 degrees, then turn down oven to 375 and bake for 30 more minutes.

Ya know, though? I recall that my grandmother would make a thickened raisin mixture to pour into the pie shell. She boiled the lemon and raisins and thickened the mixture with flour.

[Olney Blue]

14. Thank you, grasswire. That is so nice of you!