Nannie's Apple & Prune Pie

Approx. Time: 45 minutes
Oven: 350 degree baking temp.

Ingredients:  1 c. water, 1 c. flour, ½ c. butter, 3 eggs, pinch of sugar, 4 apples sliced, 1 c dried prunes, dash of granulated sugar, 5 tablespoons rat poison

• Bring to boil water, butter, sugar. At boil, stir in flour.
• Over low heat, continue to stir until able to form doughy ball. Into dough, mix egg mixture (well beaten) until ball is smooth.
• Grease 9-inch pie tin.
• Roll out pastry, lining bottom and sides of pan with pastry dough, clipping excess for pie top.
• Add apple slices and prunes in hearty layers. It is best to soak prunes overnight in rat poison; generic hardware store variety will do quite well.
• After spreading pears and prunes into shell, pour d lethal juice of marinated prunes over apple and prune contents. Juice adds extra flavor and conceals taste of rat poison. (If sting of arsenic tartness remains, add extra tbsp of sugar for good measure.)
• Cover pie with leftover dough in preheated oven for 45 minutes, checking occasionally. Top with granulated sugar while top crust is fresh from oven.

Guaranteed to be...er, a real man-pleasing treat??

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NOTE:

The following biography of poisoner NANNIE DOSS has been compiled by information from various sources, chief among them a member of Nannie's family, Sherby Green, who opened up her research materials to The Crime Library. Much of Nannie's life, however, remains shrouded in mystery and in between Ms. Green's papers and other sources there exists a few blank spots where events can be only conjectured by those who write about Nannie. In those very few instances, I created an assumption based on research available.

Most of the following story, however, is unembroidered.