Strawberry Pie

It's a keeper!


1 pie crust

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup of flour
6 tablespoons butter softened

4 cups of strawberries cleaned and cut in half
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup of flour
1 tablespoon of cornstarch

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Place a drip pan on lowest shelf to catch pie juices.
2. To Make Topping: In a medium bowl, mix until fluffy the 3/4 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup flour and butter.
3. Place cleaned strawberries in a deep bowl. In a separate bowl, mix together the 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup flour, and cornstarch. Gently coat berries with this mixture; be careful not to crush berries.
4. Pour berries into prepared pie crust mounding them in the middle; mounding is necessary as the berries will sink as they bake.  If there is flour/cornstarch/sugar mixture in bottom of bowl, don't dumb into pie - it will make a gooey gel at the bottom of the pie. Cover berries with crumb topping and top crumbs. Wrap edges of pie crust with foil to prevent burning.
5. Bake pie in preheated oven for 20 minutes, then reduce heat to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) and bake for an additional 40 minutes. When there are 10 minutes left of baking, sprinkle a little extra sugar over crumb topping and then finish baking.