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German Puff Paste

Take one pound of butter and one of flour. Mix the butter into one-half of the flour, using a knife; mix the remainder of the flour with the yolk of one egg and half a cup of milk; no salt; roll it out and divide it into four parts. Then divide the other portion in four parts; roll out one of the quarters without shortening; place one of the quarters, which has the butter in, on it, and fold over; then roll out; repeat this three times; do the same with the other quarters. This is enough for eight pies, for covers; the under crust can be made of the following: Three cups flour, one cup lard, one-half cup butter, one-half cup water; stir lightly with a knife.

II. Pies for Dyspeptics.

SOME persons will eat pies, when they know they disagree with them. If so, let them stick to the pies mentioned in this section, and if they must eat the crust, let it be made by taking equal quantities of Graham and white flour, wet with thin sweet cream, bake in a hot oven, as common pie-crust. Or take a piece of bread dough, after it has risen, and roll in a small piece of butter; roll out as pie-crust.