The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book

1/2 cup cream; 1 egg; 6 boiled apples; 1 teaspoon vanilla; butter size of a walnut; sugar to taste. Beat sugar, cream, flavoring, and egg. Place apples on crust, pour liquid over, dab with bits of butter, and bake in moderate oven. MRS. I. GLATZLE. Banana Pie. FILLING: 1 pint of sweet milk; y2 cup of sugar; 1 teaspoonful of vanilla; 2 yolks of eggs; 2 tablespoons of flour. Cook together in double boiler until thick. PIE CRUST: 1 cupful of flour; 2 tablespoons ice water; 4 level tablespoonfuls lard. Bake crust. Cover with layer of sliced bananas and put in the filling. Beat the whites of the two eggs, adding two tablespoons of sugar. Place on top and brown in the oven. MARY LOVE. Apple Cream Pie. To 2 cups of stewed and mashed apples add % cup sugar, put on crust and bake. When cold pour over it 1 cup of sweet cream whipped with 3 tablespoonfuls sugar. Buttermilk Pie. 1 cup buttermilk; 2 eggs; % cup sugar; 1 teaspoon cornstarch; juice and rind of y2 lemon. Mix, pour in crust and bake. When done spread with eggwhites beaten with 3 tablespoons sugar ; set in oven to brown. Chocolate Pie. 2 cups of milk; 1 cup of sugar; yolks of 3 eggs; 3 tablespoonfuls of flour; 3 tablespoonfuls of cocoa; 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. Boil until thick and smooth. Bake crust and fill. Beat whites of eggs, add 3 tablespoonfuls of sugar. Brown. Cream Pie. y2 cup sugar; 1 tablespoon butter; 2 tablespoons flour; 2 well beaten eggs; 2 cups rich milk; 2 teaspoons orange extract. Blackberry Short Cake. 1 qt. of flour; 1 teaspoonful of salt; 2 heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder; 2 tablespoonfuls butter; pint of milk. Sift the flour, salt and baking powder together — 81 — mix in the butter cold, add the milk and mix into a smooth dough, just soft enough to handle. Divide in two, roll out one-half inch thick to size of pie plate. Brush first layer with melted butter and lay on greased pie plate. Bake in hot oven twenty minutes, separate the cakes without cutting. Put one quart of blackberries in earthen bowl, sprinkle with sugar, crush slightly and spread on cut side of hot short cake. Put on the other cake. Spread top with whipped cream sweetened with a little sugar and flavored with vanilla. Garnish the top with whole blackberries. MRS. OTTO DITTMAR. Cream Cheese Pie. 1 soup plate cream cheese; y2 cup sugar; 1 cup currants; 3 eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla. Smooth cheese with mixing spoon, adding cream or milk if too dry. Stir in sugar, currants, flavoring, the yolks of eggs and the beaten white of one egg. Fill into pie crust and bake. Reserve remaining whites of egg for meringue. If pie is preferred without meringue, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Lemon Pie. 2 small cups sugar; 6 level tablespoonfuls flour; 2 lemons; 1 orange; 6 eggs; 2 cups of water. Line a pie pan with rich crust. Mix the flour with sugar, grate the rind of one lemon and half the rind of the orange, use juice of all three, mix well with sugar, add the yolks of eggs, stir well and add the water, fill — 82 — the pie crust and bake till thick custard. Beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth, add one half cup sugar, beat stiff, spread on pie set in oven again, and bake till light brown. This makes two pies. MISS ANNA GOLD. Cream Pie.