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Submitted by Lindsay Persichetti

In memory of: Ginny Falcsik and in honor of her amazing caregiver, Dennis Falcsik

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup Crisco
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 1/2 tsp vinegar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 can cherry pie filling

Heat oven to 350.

Mix all ingredients except cherries into a dough. Use 3/4 of the dough as the bottom crust – pat into 9×13 pan. Top with pie filling.

Roll out remaining crust and cut into thin strips; criss-cross strips in a lattice pattern over the cherries.

Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.