Whipped Cream-Banana-Strawberry Pie

1 cup whipping cream or substitute
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
4 ripe bananas
2 cups strawberries

Whip cream, fold in sugar and vanilla. Peel the bananas and slice into baked pie shell, either graham cracker or the regular kind. Add strawberries and cover immediately with whipped cream. Before serving, garnish with additional banana slices and strawberries. Makes 1 large pie.

Pineapple Pie

4 eggs
1 1/4 cups sugar
4 tablespoons margarine or butter
1 cup soured milk or buttermilk (place 1 tablespoon lemon juice or kalamansi juice into a cup and fill with sweet milk, stir)
Add a pinch of soda to sour milk
1 cup crushed pineapple

Mix sugar, flour, add beaten egg yolks. Stir pinch of soda into sour milk, add milk and pineapple to above mixture. Pour into unbaked pie crust, dot with butter and bake in hot (450° F.) oven about 10 minutes. Lower heat to 350° and bake until filling is not quite firm, that is, it will still shake when pan is moved. Spread on stiffly beaten egg whites (which have been beaten with 6 tablespoons sugar).Bake till golden brown, about 15 or 20 minutes.

Mango Pie

2 1/2 cups sliced mangoes
1/2 tablespoon cornstarch or 1 1/2
tablespoons flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon margarine

Peel mangoes, slice thin. Put in pie pan lined with pastry. Sprinkle with sugar and cornstarch or flour. Pour water over top and dot with butter. Cover with diagonal strips of pie crust and bake 10 minutes in very hot oven (450°F.) then reduce heat to 425° F. for 30 minutes. Makes nine-inch pie.