Grandma Sterne's Sour Cherry Pie

Ingredients:

• 1 Cream cheese pie crust recipe
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 5 Tablespoons cornstarch
• 3 cans (16 oz each) pitted tart red cherries, packed in water, drained and 1/2 cup liquid reserved
• 1 teaspoon almond extract

1.  Prepare cream cheese crust
2.  divide dough in thirds.  Shape, flatten into disks, wrap in plastic; chill 30 min.
3.  Combine the sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan.  Stir in reserved 1/2 cup cherry liquid.  Bring to boiling, stirring constantly; cook 3 to 5 minutes.  Remove from heat; stir in extract.  Fold in cherries.  Let cool.
4.  Preheat oven to 400
5.  Roll out dough disk into 12 inch round.  Fit into 9-inch pie plate.  Trim off excess dough.  Pour cherry mixture into prepared crust.
6.  Roll second disk to 11-inch round.  Cut out vent holes.  Center dough over cherry mixture.  Trim off excess.
7.  Roll last disk 1/8 inch thick.  Cut into 1/4 inch wide and braid strips to lay around perimeter.
8.  Bake in 400 degrees 40-50 minutes until golden and filling bubbles.