Recipe Dessert Cherry Pie (Pie)

Required Ingredients:

• 1 (20 ounce) can pitted sour cherries
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 envelope (1 tablespoon) unflavored gelatin
• 2 egg yolks
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 1/4 teaspoon red food coloring
• 2 egg whites
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 cup heavy cream, whipped
• 1 (9 inch) graham cracker crust

Preparing/Cooking:

• Let cherries sit in juice with 1/4 cup sugar for 2 hours.
• Drain juice off cherries into a saucepan.
• Soften gelatin in the cherry juice.
• Mix in egg yolks and salt.
• Cook on low heat, stirring constantly, for 4 minutes, until gelatin dissolves.
• Remove from heat and stir in almond extract, red food color, and cherries.
• Chill until thick, but not coagulated.
• In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until foamy.
• Gradually add 1/4 cup sugar, continuing to beat until stiff peaks form.
• Fold into cherry mixture.
• Fold in whipped cream until no streaks remain.
• Pour into graham cracker crust.
• Chill in refrigerator.

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