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1904

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Presented as published in 1904. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
and berries may be made into palatable pies with- out rich crusts or an excess of sugar, or the addi- tion of unwholesome spices and flavorings. Bake the crust separately, and fill when needed with pre- pared fruit, or with fresh fruit, using only sufficient sugar to sweeten ; add no spices, and bake quickly. Prepare apples for pies by paring, coring, and divi- ding in eighths. Fill crusts in which the fruit is to be baked quite full and slightly heaping in the center. If flavoring is desired, let it be that of some other fruit. For apple pies, a teaspoonful or two of pineapple juice, a little grated lemon or orange peel, or a little strawberry or quince syrup, may be used for flavoring. For pies made of apples, peaches, and fruits which are not very juicy, add a tablespoonful or so of water or fruit juice; but for very juicy fruits and berries, dredge the under crust with a tablespoonful of sugar and a little flour mixed together before filling, or stir a spoonful of flour into the fruit so that each berry or piece may be separately floured. *Fruit and Nut Pie. — For the crust for a large pie, take one and one-fourth cups each of sifted Almond Meal and pastry flour; salt, and one third of a cup of waterFruit and Nut Pie. Mix the meal, flour, and salt; add water, and roll out without kneading. When Desserts 2I5 the pan is covered with the paste, have mixed to- gether one-half cup of sugar and one-third cup of Almond Meal with a little salt. Sprinkle half of this over the paste on the bottom of the pan. Fill the pan with tart apples which have been pared and cut into quarters or eighths, then across ; drop into the spaces fine-flavored raisins. Sprinkle the re- mainder of the sugar and meal over the top of the fruit, putting plenty near the edges. Cover with the top crust, and bake until the apples are tender. *Granose Apple Pie. — On each individual pie- plate put a few crisp Granose Flakes. Dip carefully over them some stewed apples, sweetened as for sauce, and sprinkle Flakes lightly over the topGranose Apple Pie. Serve at once. Whortleberries, cranberries, prunes, peaches, or any other stewed fruit may be used in place of the apples, or a cooked cream or lemon fill- ing as for Cream Granose, Lemon, or Cream Pie. *Cream Granose Pie. — Put one pint of milk into the double boiler, set over the fire, and let it come to a boil. Add one and one-half tablespoonfuls of flour which has been blended in a part of the milk; set immediately into the double boiler, and add one egg, one-third cup of sugar, and a pinch of salt. Stir constantly until thickened, flavor with vanillaCream Granose Pie. Serve over freshly toasted Granose Flakes. 2l6 Healthful Cookery *Orange Pie. — i cup water, i orange (juice), /2 lemon (juice only), 1/3 teaspoonful grated orange rind, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoonful butter, I egg (yolk only), 1 tablespoonful corn-starch. Prepare as for Cherry Pie. Grape Tart. — • 1 pint grape juice, 2 tablespoon- fuls corn-starch, y2 cup sugar. Into one pint of canned or fresh grape juice, when boiling, stir two tablespoonfuls of corn-starch or maizena, braided with a little water, and cook for five minutes. Sweeten to taste, and fill a Granola crust. Orange Pie