Pies and Pastry
Green Apple Pie
Make a good light crust; wet the edge of the pie-dish, and lay a thin strip all round. Pare, core, and slice the apples, and lay them in…
Baked Apple Dumpling
Prepare pastry as for pie; roll into squares. Peel and core apple; fill centre with butter, sugar, cinnamon, and cloves. Take the pastry…
Cream Apple Pie
Make an apple pie in the usual way. When it is sufficiently cooked, take it out of the oven, cut out the pastry from the middle, and, when…
Dutch Apple Pie
Pare, core, and slice 3 pounds of apples, and wash and dry half a pound of currants; lay part of the apples in a dish, and strew the…
Apple Potpie
14 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced, 1 1/2 pints flour, 1 teaspoonful baking-powder, 1 cupful sugar, 1/2 cupful butter, 1 cupful milk…
Banbury Tarts
Chop 1 cupful seeded raisins, add 1/2 cupful cleaned currants, 1 cupful sugar, 2 tablespoonful cracker dust, 1 beaten egg, juice and grated…
Gooseberry Pie
3 cupfuls gooseberries, stewed with 1 1/2 cupfuls sugar fifteen minutes, and strained. Line pie-plate with paste; put in gooseberry jam…
Mincemeat
7 pounds currants, 3 1/2 pounds peeled and cored apples, 3 1/2 pounds beef, 3 1/2 pounds suet, 1/2 pound each citron, lemon, and orange…
Mince Pasties
Make puff paste; spread it with mince made of boiled tongue, suet, apples, raisins, orange juice, cider, sugar, citron, currants, and…
Pumpkin Pie
1 1/2 cupfuls stewed and browned pumpkin, 1 cupful milk, 1/2 cupful scalded cream, 2 eggs, well beaten; generous 1/4 cupful of sugar, 1/4…
Pumpkin or Squash Pie
Mix 3 cupfuls thick stewed and sieved pumpkin or squash, 2 cupfuls milk, 1 cupful sugar, 1 teaspoonful salt, 2 eggs, 1/2 teaspoonful…
Tarts-Gooseberry, Currant, Apple, or Any Other Fruit
Time to bake, from three-quarters to 1 hour. 1 quart gooseberries, rather more than 1/2 pound paste, moist sugar to taste. Cut off tops and…
Tartlets
Time to bake, quarter of an hour. Line some patty-pans with puff paste, fill them with any jam or preserve, and bake lightly.
Lemon Pie
Use juice and grated rind of 1 lemon, yolks of 2 eggs, 1 cupful of sugar, 2 scant tablespoonfuls corn starch, 1 cupful boiling water. Cook…
Cream Pie
2 eggs, 2 cupfuls milk, 1 cupful sugar, 1 table-spoonful corn starch. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. Beat the yolks, sugar, and corn starch…
Chocolate Pie
1 cupful of milk, 1 cupful water, 1 heaping tablespoonful of flour, yolks of 2 eggs, a piece of butter size of a hickory nut, a piece of…
Cream Puffs
Let 1 cupful milk and 1/2 cupful of butter come to a boil. Slowly stir into this 1 cupful sifted flour mixed with 1 teaspoonful of…
Rosettes
Take 4 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, and a speck of salt; beat these together; then add 1 pint of milk and flour enough to make a batter…
Boiled Indian-Meal Pudding
Put together in a mixing-bowl 1 cupful each of beef suet (chopped fine), molasses, milk, seeded raisins, and sift into the mixture 1 cupful…
Raisin Sauce
Mix together 1 cupful molasses, 1 cupful of hot water, the juice of 1 lemon, 1 1/2 cupfuls fine seeded chopped raisins. Cook for ten…
English Apple Pudding
12 or 14 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced; 1 teaspoonful extract nutmeg, 1 1/2 cupfuls sugar. Line earthenware pudding-mould with paste…
Cottage Pudding
1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful milk, 1 egg, lump butter size of egg, 1 pint flour, salt, 1 heaping teaspoonful baking-powder. Sauce.--1 cupful…
Gruetz (from Holland)
1 pint gooseberry pulp, 1 pint red-currant juice, 1 cupful orange juice; when hot stir in as much corn meal as will thicken; add pinch…
Suet Pudding
1 cupful chopped beef suet, 1 cupful raisins, 1 cupful molasses, 1/2 cupful currants, 1 cupful sour milk, 1 cupful corn meal, brown and…
Gooseberry Pudding
1 cupful sweet milk, 1/2 cupful sugar, 2 eggs beaten separately, 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter, 1 teaspoonful baking-powder sifted with 1…
Nut Pudding
2 eggs, 1/2 cupful of sugar, 1 cupful of sweet milk, 1/2 cupful of melted butter, 1 good pint of sifted flour, 2 teaspoonfuls of…
Rotterdam Pudding (Rich)
Beat 4 1/2 ounces of fine flour to a smooth paste with half a pint of milk, and add 4 1/2 ounces of sugar and a small pinch of salt. Blanch…
Rum Pudding
Grate 3 ounces of stale bread crumbs, and pour over them as much rum as will moisten them. When they are well soaked, beat them up with 6…
Fruit Roly-Poly Pudding
Beat a teacupful of flour to a smooth paste with a little cold milk. Add 2 well-beaten eggs, a pinch of salt, and as much milk as will make…
Polish-Pudding
Blanch 1 ounce of sweet almonds and 6 bitter ones, and pound them in a mortar to a smooth paste, adding a few drops of water to prevent…
Christmas Plum Pudding
Shred finely half a pound of beef suet with a little flour to prevent it sticking; add a pinch of salt, a quarter of a pound of stoned…
Steamed Graham Pudding
1 cupful thick sour milk, 1/2 cupful Porto Rico molasses, 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful soda in milk…