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Prickly Pear

Serves/Makes:6

Ingredients

• 1 uncooked pie crust (9 or 10 inches)
• 12 slices bacon or like amount of ham, cooked and diced
• l c .shredded Swiss cheese
• 1/3 cup (80 ml) minced onion
• 1/2 of a green bell pepper, diced
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups (475 ml) light cream or whipping cream
• 3/4 tsp (4 ml) salt
• 1/4 tsp (1 ml) sugar
• 1/8 tsp (1 ml) cayenne (red) pepper

Preparation

• Heat oven to 425 degrees (225 C.).
• Have pastry ready.
• Sprinkle bacon, cheese and onion and bell pepper in pie pan.
• Beat remaining ingredients together and pour over all in pie shell.
• Bake 15 minutes.
• Reduce oven temperature to 300 degrees (150 C.) and bake about 30 minutes longer or until knife inserted 1 inch from edge comes out clean.
• Let pie stand 10 minutes prior to serving.

Comments

This is an easy quick favorite. You can subsitute hamburger for the bacon/ham and cheddar for the cheese and put in a 1/4 t thyme and have another style quiche.