To the juice and sliced pulp of two large fresh
oranges, add the grated yellow rind of one orange.
Beat the yolks of three eggs with a cupful of sugar and
beat the whites to a high froth and add to them a cup of
milk. Mix all the above together. Have ready a nice
puff paste✪ Orange Pie, and bake the mixture in it.
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LEMON PIE.
Grate the rind and express the juice of three lemons;
rub together a cup and a half of powdered sugar and
three tablespoonfuls of butter; beat up the yolks of four
eggs, and add to the butter and sugar, lastly the lemon ;
bake on a rich puff paste✪ Lemon Pie without an upper crust.
While the pie is baking, beat up the whites of the four
eggs with powdered loaf sugar, spread it over the top
of the pie when done ; then set back in the oven a few
moments to brown lightly.
COCOANUT PIE.
Cut off the brown part of the cocoanut, grate the
white part, mix it with milk, and set it on the fire and
let it boil slowly eight or ten minutes. To a pound of
the grated cocoanut allow a quart of milk, eight eggs,
four tablespoonfuls of sifted white sugar, a glass of
wine, a small cracker pounded fine, two spoonfuls of
melted butter and half a nutmeg✪ Cocoanut Pie. The eggs and sugar
should be beaten together to a froth, then the wine
stirred in. Put them into the milk and cocoanut,
which should be first allowed to get quite cool; add the
cracker and nutmeg, turn the whole into deep pie
plates, with a lining and rim of puff paste. Bake them
as soon as turned into the plates.
CUSTARD PIE.
Beat three eggs slightly, add three tablespoonfuls of
sugar, one saltspoonful of salt, and one saltspoonful of
nutmeg, if liked. Pour on three cups of scalded milk;
strain into a deep plate lined with paste✪ Custard Pie. Bake slowly,
and the moment it puffs and a knife blade comes out
clean, it is done.
BERRY PIES.
Pick over the berries and sprinkle slightly with flour;
add sugar to taste — about one cup for a quart of fruit.
Do not spoil the fruit flavor by using spices. Bake in
a deep plate, with two crusts.
214 The Complete Cook Book.
SOUTHEEN MOLASSES PIE.
Mix TOgether three eggs well beaten with one cup of
sugar and three tablespoonfuls of melted butter and a
little powdered ginger. Put one cup of New Orleans
molasses✪ Southern Molasses Pie on the stove, and when it boils add the egg
ihixture gradually, stirring all the time. Bemove and
pour in a rich crust and bake.
APPLE SYRUP PIE.
Line a pie iish with a short crust, and spread over a
thin layer of golden syrup. Fill up with slices of
apple, packed closely together. Sprinkle the top with
sugar, and small lumps of butter, and a pinch of grated
nutmeg. Cover with a lattice- work of pastry and bake.
APPLE POT PIE.
First, the pastry : Rub into a pint of flour a heaping
spoonful of lard. Strew in a little salt, and work it
until the mass becomes numberless little globules and
balls. Then moisten with cold water, and press them
together until they adhere, and your pastry is made. It
must not be kneaded or worked over at all. Let any
cook try this method, and he will find it the best and
easiest way to make fine leaf paste, and he will never
again countenance the old rolling, larding, butter-
spreading system. Now for the fruit : Pare, core and
quarter one dozen apples✪ Apple Syrup Pie. Put them in a baking pan,
with one large cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of
spices, two of molasses and one of butter; add water
until the fruit is nearly covered, and put it in the oven
to bake and stew, and brown. When the apples begin
to soften, dredge in a little flour, for the juice, though
plentiful, must not be watery. Roll out the pastry.
Cut the cover to suit the pan, and make the trimmings
into dumplings, which must be dropped at intervals
among the fruit. Fold the pie cover in half, make
several oblique incisions for openings, lay it on and
brown it lightly. Serve on a dish like peach cobbler.
Like that substantial dessert, it may be eaten with
cream.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
To the juice and sliced pulp of two large fresh oranges, add the grated yellow rind of one orange. Beat the yolks of three eggs with a cupful of sugar and beat the whites to a high froth and add to them a cup of milk. Mix all the above together. Have ready a nice puff paste, and bake the mixture in it.
The Complete Cook Book. 213
LEMON PIE.
Grate the rind and express the juice of three lemons; rub together a cup and a half of powdered sugar and three tablespoonfuls of butter; beat up the yolks of four eggs, and add to the butter and sugar, lastly the lemon ; bake on a rich puff paste without an upper crust. While the pie is baking, beat up the whites of the four eggs with powdered loaf sugar, spread it over the top of the pie when done ; then set back in the oven a few moments to brown lightly.
COCOANUT PIE.
Cut off the brown part of the cocoanut, grate the white part, mix it with milk, and set it on the fire and let it boil slowly eight or ten minutes. To a pound of the grated cocoanut allow a quart of milk, eight eggs, four tablespoonfuls of sifted white sugar, a glass of wine, a small cracker pounded fine, two spoonfuls of melted butter and half a nutmeg. The eggs and sugar should be beaten together to a froth, then the wine stirred in. Put them into the milk and cocoanut, which should be first allowed to get quite cool; add the cracker and nutmeg, turn the whole into deep pie plates, with a lining and rim of puff paste. Bake them as soon as turned into the plates.
CUSTARD PIE.
Beat three eggs slightly, add three tablespoonfuls of sugar, one saltspoonful of salt, and one saltspoonful of nutmeg, if liked. Pour on three cups of scalded milk; strain into a deep plate lined with paste. Bake slowly, and the moment it puffs and a knife blade comes out clean, it is done.
BERRY PIES.
Pick over the berries and sprinkle slightly with flour; add sugar to taste — about one cup for a quart of fruit. Do not spoil the fruit flavor by using spices. Bake in a deep plate, with two crusts.
214 The Complete Cook Book.
SOUTHERN MOLASSES PIE.
Mix together three eggs well beaten with one cup of sugar and three tablespoonfuls of melted butter and a little powdered ginger. Put one cup of New Orleans molasses on the stove, and when it boils add the egg mixture gradually, stirring all the time. Remove and pour in a rich crust and bake.
APPLE SYRUP PIE.
Line a pie dish with a short crust, and spread over a thin layer of golden syrup. Fill up with slices of apple, packed closely together. Sprinkle the top with sugar, and small lumps of butter, and a pinch of grated nutmeg. Cover with a lattice- work of pastry and bake.
APPLE POT PIE.
First, the pastry : Rub into a pint of flour a heaping spoonful of lard. Strew in a little salt, and work it until the mass becomes numberless little globules and balls. Then moisten with cold water, and press them together until they adhere, and your pastry is made. It must not be kneaded or worked over at all. Let any cook try this method, and he will find it the best and easiest way to make fine leaf paste, and he will never again countenance the old rolling, larding, butterspreading system. Now for the fruit : Pare, core and quarter one dozen apples. Put them in a baking pan, with one large cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of spices, two of molasses and one of butter; add water until the fruit is nearly covered, and put it in the oven to bake and stew, and brown. When the apples begin to soften, dredge in a little flour, for the juice, though plentiful, must not be watery. Roll out the pastry. Cut the cover to suit the pan, and make the trimmings into dumplings, which must be dropped at intervals among the fruit. Fold the pie cover in half, make several oblique incisions for openings, lay it on and brown it lightly. Serve on a dish like peach cobbler. Like that substantial dessert, it may be eaten with cream.
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