The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps

The pattern people's household book, 1927 — five hundred recipes, then how to lay a table, take out a stain and stock a first-aid cabinet.

Pastry

13 recipes in this part of The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps.

Apple Pie

4 to 6 tart apples Line a pie-pan with plain crust and fill with thinly sliced apples. Add the water and cover with a top crust, making it…

Mock Cherry Pie

Line a pie-pan with crust. Fill with cranberries, washed and cut in halves, mixed with chopped raisins. Sprinkle with mixture of sugar and…

Meringue Pie

Line a pie-pan with plain paste. Cut into pieces sufficient rhubarb to fill the pan, and sprinkle with flour until each piece is quite…

Prune Pie

1 cup cooked and pitted prunes I lemon, juice and grated rind

Butterscotch Pie

Heat one cup of milk and the sugar until the sugar is free from lumps. Mix the corn-starch, one-half cup milk and egg-yolks and add to the…

Cream Pie and Its Variations

2 egg-yolks or I whole egg Scald the milk. Mix the corn-starch, sugar and salt, and add hot milk slowly. Cook twenty minutes over hot…

Lemon Pie

Mix the corn-starch in a little of the cold water and bring the rest of the water to the boiling-point. Add the moistened cornstarch and…

Pumpkin Pie

Steam and strain fresh pumpkin or bake it and put it through a sieve. Canned pumpkin is ready to use. Add remaining ingredients in the…

Apple Tarts

Pare, core and cut up tart apples and cook them in the water until soft, stewing them very slowly. Beat this sauce smooth, partly cool…

Banana Roll

Peel bananas and cut in halves crosswise. Roll puff or flaky paste one-eighth of an inch thick. Cut into pieces. Dip each piece in…

Mammy's Fried Pies

Stew dried apples, peaches or apricots. Drain off all juice, mash well and sweeten. Roll pie-crust one-eighth inch thick and cut circles…

Peanut Strips

Roll paste very thin. Place on inverted baking-tin. Brush half with peanut butter thinned with lemon-juice. Cover with the other half and…

Raspberry Turnovers

Cut circles of puff or flaky paste three inches in diameter, having the paste not more than one-eighth of an inch thick. Moisten half the…

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