Part 16 (2/2)

Drop on b.u.t.tered tins and bake in moderate oven.

PASTRIES, PIES, ETC.

Grape Fruit Pie

First bake a sh.e.l.l as for lemon pie, then make a filling as follows: Mix one tablespoon of cornstarch in a little cold water, and over this pour one cupful of boiling water. To this add the juice of two grapefruits, the grated rind and juice of one orange, the beaten yolks of two eggs, and the white of one, and a small piece of b.u.t.ter. Put all in the double boiler and cook until thick, stirring all the time. When done, put in the sh.e.l.l. Now beat up the white of the second egg with one-half a cupful of sugar until thick, and spread with a knife over the pie. Put in the oven and let brown lightly. Serve cold. This makes a delicious pie.

Spice Pie

The yolks of three eggs, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of cream, two tablespoons of flour, two-thirds of a cupful of b.u.t.ter, one teaspoon of spice, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Mix the flour and sugar together, then cream with the b.u.t.ter. Add the yolks of the eggs, beating thoroughly. Next add cream and spices. Use the whites for the frosting.

Cream Pie

1 1/2 cups milk 2 egg yolks 2 tablespoons sugar a little salt 1 tablespoon b.u.t.ter Vanilla to taste

Scald milk; beat eggs; add sugar; pour into milk, beating constantly, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch and 1 tablespoon flour (rounded).

Bake crust; beat whites; add 1 teaspoon sugar, cover with cocoanut browned lightly; now cover with whipped cream and cream nuts.

Pie Crust

One level cup of flour, one-half cup of lard, one-half teaspoon salt, one-fourth cup ice cold water, one teaspoon baking powder. Mix salt, baking powder and flour thoroughly, chop in the lard, add water. Use as little flour as possible when rolling out. This makes a light, crisp, flaky and delicious pie crust.

Pie for a Suffragist's Doubting Husband

1 qt. milk human kindness 8 reasons: War White Slavery Child Labor 8,000,000 Working Women Bad Roads Poisonous Water Impure Food

Mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially with the upper crust. Upper crusts must be handled with extreme care for they quickly sour if manipulated roughly.

Sigmund Spaeth, in his ”Operatic Cook Book, in Life,” gives this recipe for the making of the opera ”Pagliacci.”

Beat a large ba.s.s drum with the white of one clown. Then mix with a prologue and roll very thin. Fill with a circus just coming to town. One leer, one scowl and one tragical grin. Bake in a sob of Carusian size.

Result: the most toothsome of Italy's pies.

Where is the man that can live without dining?

--Lytton.

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