"Piebox" Special Vinegar Pie

"Piebox" is slang for chuck wagon. The range hands called it that with both affection and optimism, hoping there would be a pie in the wagon for their dessert.

Ingredients

• Pastry for 1 crust 9 inch pie, unbaked
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
• Dash of salt
• 4 egg yolks
• 2 egg whites
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped pecans
• Whipped cream to garnish

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 450 degrees F.
2. Line pie pan with the pastry and freeze while you prepare filling.
3. Sift dry ingredients together.
4. Whisk egg yolks just to blend; beat egg white until stiff.
5. Fold sugar into whites thoroughly but not overmuch, and stir with wooden spoon into yolks.
6. Add sifted dry ingredients with a few strokes, then sour cream.
7. Mix all remaining ingredients except whipped cream and fold into filling.
8. Spread in pastry-lined pie pan and smooth top.
9. Bake for 10 minutes.
10. Lower heat to 400 degrees F and bake for 5 minutes.
11. Lower heat to 350 degrees F, and bake for about 15 minutes more, or until set.
12. Cool on rack, then garnish border with unsweetened whipped cream.