PASTRIES, PIES, ETC. Grape Fruit Pie

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First bake a shell as for lemon pie, then make a filling as follows: Mix one tablespoon of cornstarch in a little cold water, and over this pour one cupful of boiling water. To this add the juice of two grapefruits, the grated rind and juice of one orange, the beaten yolks of two eggs, and the white of one, and a small piece of butter. Put all in the double boiler and cook until thick, stirring all the time. When done, put in the shell. Now beat up the white of the second egg with one-half a cupful of sugar until thick, and spread with a knife over the pie. Put in the oven and let brown lightly. Serve cold. This makes a delicious pie.

Spice Pie

The yolks of three eggs, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of cream, two tablespoons of flour, two-thirds of a cupful of butter, one teaspoon of spice, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Mix the flour and sugar together, then cream with the butter. Add the yolks of the eggs, beating thoroughly. Next add cream and spices. Use the whites for the frosting.

Cream Pie

1½ cups milk
2 egg yolks
2 tablespoons sugar
a little salt
1 tablespoon butter
Vanilla to taste

Scald milk; beat eggs; add sugar; pour into milk, beating constantly, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch and 1 tablespoon flour (rounded).

Bake crust; beat whites; add 1 teaspoon sugar, cover with cocoanut browned lightly; now cover with whipped cream and cream nuts.

Pie Crust

One level cup of flour, one-half cup of lard, one-half teaspoon salt, one-fourth cup ice cold water, one teaspoon baking powder. Mix salt, baking powder and flour thoroughly, chop in the lard, add water. Use as little flour as possible when rolling out. This makes a light, crisp, flaky and delicious pie crust.

Pie for a Suffragist's Doubting Husband

1 qt. milk human kindness
8 reasons:
War
White Slavery
Child Labor
8,000,000 Working Women
Bad Roads
Poisonous Water
Impure Food

Mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially with the upper crust. Upper crusts must be handled with extreme care for they quickly sour if manipulated roughly.


Sigmund Spaeth, in his "Operatic Cook Book, in Life," gives this recipe for the making of the opera "Pagliacci."

Beat a large bass drum with the white of one clown. Then mix with a prologue and roll very thin. Fill with a circus just coming to town. One leer, one scowl and one tragical grin. Bake in a sob of Carusian size. Result: the most toothsome of Italy's pies.


Where is the man that can live without dining?
—Lytton.

Orange Pie

1 Large Grated Apple
1 Orange—grated rind and juice
½ cup Sugar
2 Eggs—Butter size of an egg

Grate apple; add orange, sugar, butter and yolks. Beat whites and add lastly. Bake slowly in open shells.

Lancaster County Pie

1 cup molasses
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup sugar
1 cup boiling water
3 cups flour
½ cup butter

Make a pie crust and line 4 pie pans. Put soda in the molasses and heat thoroughly, then add the boiling water. Divide in the four pans. Mix flour, sugar and butter together for the crumbs and put on top of the syrup.

Bake in moderate oven.

Brown Sugar Pie

3/3 cupful of brown sugar
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons milk
1½ teaspoons vanilla

Cook until waxy looking, then take the yolks of 2 eggs and 1 heaping tablespoon of flour and 1½ cupfuls milk. Mix all together smooth. Add to the above ingredients. Cook until thick and add vanilla. Have a baked crust, use the whites beaten stiff for the top. Return to the oven for a minute or two.

Banbury Tart

1 cup flour
2 heaping tablespoons of lard
Cold water

Handle as little as possible; roll thin and cut with cutter 6 inches in diameter.

Filling

1 egg beaten light
1 cup raisins
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon of flour
Juice of one lemon and grated rind

Mix well and cook to consistency of custard, and fill the pastry which is turned up and made into the shape of a tart.



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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