Name: Picnic Pie with Cheese and Ham
Ingredients: 2 c Ham, diced, cooked; 15 oz Cheese, cottage, small curd, drained; 15 oz Cheese, ricotta; 2/3 c Cheese, parmesan, grated; 3 lg Eggs, beaten; 1/2 c Crumbs, bread, dried; 1/2 c Parsley, minced; 1/4 c Onion, minced; 1 ts Seasoning, Italian, dried; Salt (to taste); Pepper (to taste); 1 ds Sauce, red pepper; 1 lg Egg yolk, beaten, for the glaze

Don’t bear trouble, use it. Take whatever happens – justice and injustice, pleasure and pain, compliment and criticism – take it up into the purpose of your life and make something out of it. Turn it into testimony. Don’t explain evil, exploit evil; make it serve you. Just as the Lotus flower reaches down and takes up the mud and mire into the purposes of its life and produces the lotus flower out of them, so you are to take whatever happens and make something out of it.

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy, Eggs	Italian	Pies, Meats	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Ham, diced, cooked
15	oz	Cheese, cottage, small curd, drained
15	oz	Cheese, ricotta
2/3	c	Cheese, parmesan, grated
3	lg	Eggs, beaten
1/2	c	Crumbs, bread, dried
1/2	c	Parsley, minced
1/4	c	Onion, minced
1	ts	Seasoning, Italian, dried
		Salt (to taste)
		Pepper (to taste)
1	ds	Sauce, red pepper
1	lg	Egg yolk, beaten, for the glaze

INSTRUCTIONS

In a large bowl, mixed the inch-sized diced 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

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