THE REAL HOME-REEPER

Cocoanut Pie

Filling: Let one and one-half pints milk come to a boil. Thicken with two

tablespoons cornstarch, one teaspoon flour, one cup sugar dissolved in milk; add.

the yolks of three eggs well beaten and flavor to taste. Fill the baked crust with
this. Spread the beaten whites of the eggs over the top. Sprinkle with grated
cocoanut and brown lightly in the oven.

Cream Pie

Crust: Two cups flour, four tablespoons butter, three teaspoons sugar, one egg.
Rub flour and butter together. Mix egg and sugar. Put together, roll lightly
and bake. Cream: One pint milk or water, six tablespoons sugar, two tablespoons
flour, yolks of five eggs, one teaspoon vanilla. Boil to a thick cream and when
cool pour on cool crust. Beat whites of eggs to a stiff froth, mix in a little powdered
sugar and spread over the top. Set in the oven to brown.

Lemon Pie ‘9

One coffee cup sugar, three eggs, one cup of water, one tablespoon of melted
butter, one heaping tablespoon of flour, the juice and a little rind of one lemon.
Reserve the whites of the eggs and after the pie is baked spread them on the top,
beaten lightly with a spoon of sugar, and return to the oven until a light brown.
This may be cooked after it is put into the crust, but it is better to cook it first
in a double boiler. Bake from thirty to forty minutes.

Mince Meat

Four pounds beef boiled till tender, two pounds brown sugar, one pound cur-
rants, two pounds raisins, one peck apples, two cups beef suet, one-half cup citron,
one-third cup salt (chop fine all ingredients), one nutmeg, two tablespoons ground
cloves, two tablespoons allspice, two tablespoons cinnamon. Add liquid from
meat. Add one quart boiled cider. When cooked put in stone jar.

Mince Pies

One quart bowl of chopped meat, two of apples, one of stoned raisins, part
of them chopped; one-half pint chopped suet, one pint of molasses, two tablespoons
each of cloves, cinnamon, and salt, one-fourth pound of citron, two lemons or
oranges, chopped very fine. Moisten with one pint of boiled cider.

Plain Pie Crust

One and one-half cups of sifted flour, one level teaspoon salt, four level table-

spoons lard, three level tablespoons butter, two level tablespoons ice water. Chop |

in the shortening or mix lightly with tips of fingers. Add water gradually, mixing
with a knife.
Pumpkin Pie
One cup prepared pumpkin, one cup milk. Beat separately whites and yolks

of three eggs. Mix all ingredients. Add one teaspoon of ground cloves, one
teaspoon of ground cinnamon, and one teaspoon of ginger. Sweeten to taste.

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