Pastry
Aunty Phelps' Pie Crust
To one pint of sifted flour, add one even tea-spoon baking powder, and sweet cream enough to wet the flour, leaving crust a little stiff…
Good Common Paste
One coffee-cup lard, three of sifted flour, and a little salt. In winter soften the lard a little (but not in summer), cut it well into the…
Graham Paste
Mix lightly half a pound Graham flour, half a pint sweet cream, half a teaspoon salt, roll, and bake like other pastry.
Puff Paste (Take three-fourths pound)
Take three-fourths pound of butter (be sure that it is of the best quality), free it from salt (by working it in water), form it in a…
Puff Paste (One heaping pound superfine)
One heaping pound superfine sifted flour, one of butter, which has first been folded in a napkin and gently pressed to remove all moisture…
Paste With Suet
Roll a half-pound of the best suet, with very little membrane running through it, on a board for several minutes, removing all the skin and…
Apple Meringue Pie
Pare, slice, stew and sweeten ripe, tart and juicy apples, mash and season with nutmeg, (or stew lemon peel with them for flavor), fill…
Apple Custard Pie
Peel sour apples and stew until soft, and not much water is left in them, and rub through a colander. Beat three eggs for each pie. Put in…
Dried Apple Pie
Very good pies may be made of the "Alden" dried apples, by stewing in a very little water; sweeten and make like any other. The home dried…
Sliced-Apple Pie
Line pie-pan with crust, sprinkle with sugar, fill with tart apples sliced very thin, sprinkle sugar and a very little cinnamon over them…
Banana Pie
Slice raw bananas, add butter, sugar, allspice and vinegar, or boiled cider, or diluted jelly; bake with two crusts. Cold boiled sweet…
Corn Starch Pies
One quart milk, yolks of two eggs, two table-spoons corn starch, two cups sugar; mix starch in a little milk, boil the rest of the milk to…
Cream Pie (Beat thoroughly together)
Beat thoroughly together the white of one egg, half tea-cup sugar, and table-spoon of flour; then add tea-cup rich milk (some use part…
Cream Pie (Pour a pint cream upon a cup)
Pour a pint cream upon a cup and a half powdered sugar; let stand until the whites of three eggs have been beaten to a stiff froth; add…
Whipped Cream Pie
Sweeten with white sugar one tea-cup very thick sweet cream, made as cold as possible without freezing, and flavor with lemon or vanilla to…
Crumb Pie
Soak in a little warm water one tea-cup bread-crumbs half an hour, add three table-spoons sugar, half a table-spoon butter, half a cup of…
Cocoa-Nut Pie
One pint milk, a cocoa-nut, tea-cup sugar, three eggs; grate cocoanut, mix with the yolks of the eggs and sugar, stir in the milk, filling…
Custard Pie (Heat one quart good rich milk)
Heat one quart good rich milk in a tin-pan set in a skillet of hot water; take five eggs, four large table-spoons sugar, and a little salt…
Custard Pie (For a large pie take three)
For a large pie, take three eggs, one pint of milk, half cup sugar, and flavor. The crust for custard pies may be baked (not too hard)…
Chess Pie
Three eggs, two-thirds cup sugar, half cup butter (half cup milk may be added if not wanted so rich); beat butter to a cream, then add…
Green Currant Pie
Line an inch pie-dish with good pie-crust, sprinkle over the bottom two heaping table-spoons sugar and two of flour (or one of corn starch)…
Ripe Currant Pie
One cup mashed ripe currants, one of sugar, two table-spoons water, one of flour beaten with the yolks of two eggs; bake, frost the top…
Cherry Pie
Line a pie-tin with rich crust; nearly fill with the carefully seeded fruit, sweeten to taste, and sprinkle evenly with a tea-spoon…
Lemon Pie (One lemon grated one cup sugar)
One lemon grated, one cup sugar, the yolks of three eggs, small pieces butter, three table-spoons milk, two tea-spoons corn starch; beat…
Lemon Pie (Four eggs one and a half cups)
Four eggs, one and a half cups sugar, two-thirds cups water, two table-spoons flour, one lemon. Beat the yolks of eggs until very smooth…
Appleless Mince-Meat
Chop fine eight pounds green tomatoes, add six pounds sugar, one ounce each of cloves, cinnamon and allspice, simmer slowly till tomatoes…
Mince-Meat (Take five or six pounds)
Take five or six pounds scraggy beef-a neck piece will do-and put to boil in water enough to cover it; take off the scum that rises when it…
Pastry
mince-meat is better to stand over night, or several days, before baking into pies, as the materials will be more thoroughly incorpo rated…
Mince-Meat (Two bowls chopped apples one)
Two bowls chopped apples, one of chopped meat, with one-fourth pound suet, grated rind and juice of one lemon, two tea-cups mo lasses, one…
Mock Mince-Pie
Twelve crackers rolled fine, one cup hot water, half cup vinegar, one cup molasses, one of sugar, one of currants, one of raisins, spice to…
Orange Pie
Grated rind and juice of two oranges, four eggs, four table-spoons sugar, and one of butter; cream the butter and sugar, add the beaten…
Pie-Plant Pie
Mix half tea-cup white sugar and one heaping tea-spoon flour together, sprinkle over the bottom crust, then add the pie-plant cut up fine…
Peach Pie (Bake in two separate tins)
Bake in two separate tins an under and upper crust in a quick oven fifteen minutes; when done place in the lower crust one quart peaches…
Peach Pie (Line a pie-tin with puff-paste)
Line a pie-tin with puff-paste, fill with pared peaches in halves or quarters, well covered with sugar; put on upper crust and bake; or…
Dried-Peach Pie
Stew peaches until perfectly soft, mash fine, and add, for two pies, half tea-cup sweet cream, and one tea-cup sugar; bake with two crusts…
Potato Pie (Common-sized tea-cup of grated)
A common-sized tea-cup of grated raw potato, a quart sweet milk; let milk boil and stir in grated potato; when cool add two or three eggs…
Potato Pie (Boil either Irish or sweet)
Boil either Irish or sweet potatoes until well done, mash and rub through a sieve; to a pint of pulp, add three pints sweet milk…
Pumpkin Pie
Stew pumpkin, cut into small pieces, in a half pint water; and, when soft, mash with potato-masher very fine, let the water dry away…
Pine-Apple Pie
A cup of sugar, a half cup butter, one of sweet cream, five eggs, one pine-apple grated; beat butter and sugar to a cream, add beaten yolks…
Preserve Puffs
Roll out puff-paste very thin, cut into round pieces, and lay jam on each, fold over the paste, wet edges with white of an egg, and close…
Plum Cobbler
Take one quart of flour, four table-spoons melted lard, half teaspoon salt, two tea-spoons baking-powder; mix as for biscuit, with either…
Southern Tomato Pie
For one pie, peel and slice green tomatoes, add four table-spoons vinegar, one of butter, three of sugar; flavor with nutmeg or cinnamon…
Vinegar Pie
One egg, one heaping table-spoon flour, one tea-cup sugar; beat all well together, and add one table-spoon sharp vinegar, and one tea-cup…
Bina'S Strawberry Shortcake
Two heaping tea-spoons baking powder sifted into one quart flour, scant half tea-cup butter, two table-spoons sugar, a little salt, enough…
Orange Shortcake
One quart flour, two table-spoons butter, two tea-spoons baking powder thoroughly mixed with the flour; mix (not very stiff) with cold…
Apple Tarts
Pare, quarter, core, and boil in a half tea-cup of water until very soft, ten large tart apples; beat till very smooth, then add the yolks…
Tart Shells
Roll out thin a nice puff-paste, cut out with a glass or biscuit cutter, with a wine-glass or smaller cup cut out the center of two out of…