Healthful cookery

*Peach Pie. — To one cup of flour add a pinch of salt and enough sweet cream to make a soft dough ; roll out, line a pie-plate, and bake, pricking the crust before with a fork, to prevent blistering. Fill this crust with peach pulp, made by pressing canned peaches through a wire strainer. Sweeten to taste. Spread over the top of the pie whipped cream which has been slightly sweetened and flavored with vanilla. Stewed dried peaches may be used instead of canned ones. *Peach Marmalade Pie. — Rub nice well-cooked dried peaches through a colander, add one table- spoonful of flour, rub smooth in a little water. Line a pie-tin with a crust shortened with Cocoa- Desserts 21 7 nut Cream. Pour in the peach marmalade, and cover with narrow strips of the pie-paste, so ar- ranged as to form diamonds. Bake in a moderate oven. *Mock Mince Pie. — 3 cups chopped apples, 1 cup Protose, 1 cup raisins, l/2 cup sugar, y2 cup grape juice, 1/3 cup lemon juice. Mix the ingredients, and bake in a crust made with Almond Cream. Mock Mince Pie, No. 2. — 1 cup apple juice, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup chopped apples, juice 1 lemon, l/2 cup Granola, p2 cup sugar, 1 cup chopped Protose, cup chopped citron. Mix, and fill a Nut Meal crust. *Nut Mince-Meat. — 1 pound chopped Protose, 3 pints chopped tart apples, 3 cups seeded raisins, chopped, x/2 cup lemon juice, \y2 cups New Or- leans molasses (or y2 cup nicely flavored dark mo- lasses, 1 cup brown sugar, and cup granulated sugar), 1 or 2 teaspoonfuls salt, and 2 teaspoonfuls ground coriander seed. When New Orleans molasses is used, the addi- tion of a cup of strong No-Coffee or Caramel-Cereal gives a rich flavor and color. When used with Gra- nose Flakes, cook before serving. *Vegetable Mince. — 5 cups chopped tart apples, 218 Healthful Cookery 5 cups minced Protose, i cup prune marmalade, 2 cups freshly boiled apple juice, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup rolled nut meats, 1 cup Meltose, ]/2 cup sugar. Mix the ingredients, and cook gently for three hours. If desired, a tablespoonful of pure Olive Oil may be added. A cup of Malted Nuts used in place of rolled nuts is an improvement. The quantities given are sufficient for five pies. Pumpkin Pie. — 1 1/3 pints stewed pumpkin, 1 quart milk, y2 cup sugar, 3 eggs. To prepare the pumpkin, cut it into halves, re- move the seeds, divide into moderately small pieces, and bake in the oven until thoroughly done. Then scrape from the shell, rub through a colander, and proceed as follows : For one and one-third pints of the cooked pumpkin use one quart of hot, rich, sweet milk. Add one-half cup of sugar and the well-beaten yolks of three eggs; beat well together, add the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and beat thoroughly. Line pie-tins with a stiff cream paste, fill, and bake in a moderate oven till the pies are barely firm in the center, or till the custard is well set. Pumpkin Pie, No. 2. — For each pie take one- half pint of cooked pumpkin, a pint of rich milk, one third of a cup of sugar, and two eggs. Mix the Desserts 219 sugar and eggs, add the pumpkin, and lastly the milk, which should be hot, and beat all together with an egg-beater until very light. Fill the crust, and bake slowly. Pumpkin Pie without Eggs. — • il/2 pints milk, 2 scant tablespoonfuls flour, /2 cup sugar, 1^2 pints stewed pumpkin.