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The new Kentucky home cook book

1884

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Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Take four eggs, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of cream, and one tea-spoonful of flourTransparent Pie ; make a meringue and brown slightly. This makes four pies. Mrs. Hugh Bierbower. TRANSPARENT PIES. Take four eggs (the whites and yelks beaten together), one cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, two table-spoon- fuls of cream, and half a cupful of flour. For lemon pies use the juice of three lemons and the grated rind of one. Mrs. Carrie McAtee. TRANSPARENT PIE. Take the yelks of five eggs, one tea-cupful of butter, and one tea-cupful of sugar ; mix jelly or preserves with this, and flavor with vanilla. Mrs. Adxa Wadsworth. LEMON PIE. Take three eggs, two cupfuls of sugar, one table-spoonful of butter, the juice of two lemons and the grated rind of one, and one pint of boiling water. Bake in puff paste. Mrs. Dr. Phister. CHESS CAKE. Take the yelks of four eggs and one cupful of white sugar beaten very light, a lump of butter the size of an egg, and one nutmeg grated ; make a rich paste, and bake it in small pans ; slice citron, and put two or three pieces in the bot- tom of each pan; then put in the batter, and bake in a quick oven. Mrs. Alice C. Bascom. 224 Tfie New Kentucky Home Cook Booh. COCOA-NUT PUDDING. Take one coffee-cupful of grated cocoa-nut, four eggs beaten separately then together, one table-spoonful of but- ter, one table-spoonful of flour, one coffee-cupful of sugar, and four pints of sweet milkCocoa-Nut Pudding. This makes four puddings. Mrs. Fannie Berry. COCOA-NUT PUDDING. Take one nut grated fine, the whites of six eggs, half a pound of butter, and the juice of three lemons strained; add the milk of the nut, if not thin enough ; mix well, and after the pastry is baked pour in the mixture, and bake for a few moments. BAKED COCOA-NUT PUDDING. Take one nut grated, one pound of sugar, one pound of butter, four eggs, and the milk of the nut; flavor with lem- on or nutmeg; bake in pastry. GREEN APPLE PUDDINGS. Steam the apples, and press them through a colander; take the yelks of five eggs, half a pound of sugar, and six ounces of butter ; beat them well together ; then add apples to the taste, season with nutmeg, and bake in pastry. Aunt Kitty Lightfoot. RICH PUDDING. Stir one large table-spoonful of flour into one tea-cupful of new milk. Beat together one-quarter of a pound of but- ter, the yelks of five eggs, and one-half a cupful of sugarRich Pudding. Stir all together, and put into a pan and cook until thick, guarding especially against letting it scorch. Line a deep pan with puff paste, put strawberry or any similar pre- serves an inch deep in the bottom of the pan, pour in the mixture and bake. Have the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth with one cupful of sugar put on the top after The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 225 the pudding is done. Put it into the oven and brown slight- ly. Serve hot. Mrs. J. F. Eobinson. SLICED APPLE PIE. Sliced Apple Pie