Strawberry Pie

1 qt berries
1 cup berry juice
3/4 cup water
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp cornstarch
1 tsp lemon juice
(1 pie shell)

Cook berry juice, water, sugar and cornstarch together 3-4 minutes, until thick and clear. Add lemon juice. Cool and pour over berries. (First, prep the berries & put them in the pie shell.) Chill.

[Handwritten. By Ada. After transcribing lots of magazine recipes (sorry, Alice), I have to adapt to the shorthand peculiar to those who are trying to get a whole recipe on a single card. Of course, Ada knew the berries would have to be prepared and put in a pie shell before the sauce was poured over them. Duh. I, however, am quite likely to buy the ingredients, start the process, and then, with cooled sauce ready to pour over the berries, suddenly think--where's the pie-shell part of this strawberry pie? Hence the parenthetical inserts.]