Instructions: Heat oven to 450 F.

Combine gooseberries, elder flowers, sugar, salt and tapioca.

Line a 9" pie tin with pastry and fill with gooseberry mixture. Dot with butter and cover with a round of pastry or with latticed strips of pastry.

Flute edges of pastry; brush the top with milk. Sprinkle the top pastry with sugar to make it brown nicely.

Bake 10 minutes at 450 F., then reduce heat to 400 F. and bake for 35 minutes more.

Yield: 6 to 8 servings.

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