Raspberries for Cal

Ed. note: I'm blogging again. Today I'll try 2 enclosure links. I didn't think to bring my camera along, so I'll try to enclose Cami's website, which has some adorable kids and even a long shot of me in the taragon a.k.a. light, bright green. I don't particularly like the color, but it was on clearance last year and it's a very warm fleece. That's very important when you keep an old Victorian house at 60 degrees from Oct 19 to Apr 19. That's exactly 6 months of heating, ending on actual Patriots' Day (not the "Monday holiday" version of the Massachusetts' and Maine state holiday).
In case my hyperlink doesn't work:
Cami's website:
http://thefamilyjonesbloggers.blogspot.com/
Winchester's raspberry farm link:
http://sustainablewinchester.org/raspberryfarm.html


So, our garden raspberries are diminishing, though we haven't had a killing frost yet. My friend Emily told me about a Winchester town-owned raspberry field:
It's huge! My friends Cami and children Bryn and Calvin and I went raspberry picking this morning. Calvin reenacted "Blueberries for Sal" with an exactitude of a serious student of Robert McCloskey or an above average 2 year old. He even tried more than once to pick from Cami's bucket.
I picked 3 pints of raspberries!

Here's the recipe from Cami's mom that I'm going to use them in:

Raspberry Pie

For enough to put in 1 pie shell or 8-9" square pan:

1 graham cracker crust (crumbs of 1 pkg. graham crackers, smashed. Add to that 2 tbsp. fake or real butter and 2 tbsp. sugar. Pat into pan).

1 cup water
1 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. corn starch

Boil the above and stir until thick. While hot, add 2 tbsp. raspberry jello. Stir well.

Cool completely.

While cooling, do the following:
Mix 1/2 pkg. cream cheese with 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 2 tbsp. milk. After that is completely mixed you could add 1 cup cool whip (sugar free or light is fine).l

Put this mixture in the bottom of the pie shell.

When your jello mixture is cool, add 2-4 cups raspberries to it and stir lightly just to mix but not to beat up the fruit! Pour this mixture on top of the cream cheese mixture. Refrigerate for two hours or for as long as children will allow. Serve with whipped cream or cool whip.

Enjoy!