This is my grandmother's recipe. However, my mother told me that my grandmother used to simmer the raisins with the brown sugar and cinnamon.

Raisin Pie

1 cup boiling water

2 cups seedless raisins

¾ cup brown sugar

½ tsp cinnamon

4 Tbsp flour

Cold water

¼ tsp salt

2 Tbsp butter

1 Tbsp vinegar

1 tsp vanilla

Add raisins to the boiling water and simmer for 5 minutes. Add brown sugar and cinnamon. Mix flour into a soft paste with cold water. Pour and stir the flour paste into the boiling raisin mixture; stir and cook until thicken.

Add salt, butter, vinegar, and vanilla.

Bake in hot oven 425 F until pastry dough is brown and cooked, 30-35 minutes.