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Physical culture cook book

1901

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Presented as published in 1901. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
11. Peach Meringue. — Line a dish with cream crust, fill with canned peaches and bake one-half hour without a top crust'. Then add a meringue made of whites of three eggs beaten stiff with three tablespoonfuls pow- dered sugar, and brown. 12. Pineapple Pie. — Fill a crust with the fol- lowing: Cut up one pineapple, cook until soft and sweeten. Add top crust and bake one-half hour or omit top crust, bake twenty-five min- utes, cover with meringue made as for peach meringue pie, and brown. 13. Rhubarb Pie (Good). — Fill a crust with stewed rhubarb, cover with top crustApple Pie (No. 1), and bake thirty minutes, or until brown. 14. Lemon Pie. — Mix together one cup su- gar, juice and rind of two lemons, one table- spoonful flour, yolks of two eggs and white of on^. Add one cupful of hot waterLemon Pie and cook in a double boiler until it thickens. Line a perforated pie dish with a rich paste, bake it in a brisk oven, pour in the lemon mixture (which should be hot) and cover with a me- ringue made with the whites of two eggs and 184 THE PHYSICAL CULTURE COOK BOOK. two tablespoonfuls of white sugar. Set in a very slow oven for ten minutes, or until a deli- cate straw color. 15. Berry Pies. — In making berry pies it is a good plan to cut a slit in the top crust and insert a little chimney made of cornucopia- shaped paper. This will prevent the juice from boiling out. 153. Cherry (No. i), Blackberry, Raspberry or Plum Pie. — Fill crust with ripe pitted cher- ries, or berries; sprinkle with sugar, according to tartness of the berries, add the top crust and bake thirty to forty minutes. 16. Cherry Pie (2). — Fill a deep pie dish with cherries, sprinkle them thickly with su- gar, and lay around the edge of the dish a two- inch wide strip of paste. Spread a top crust over the fruit, joining its edges to that of the strip of paste already in place. Bake in a quick oven. 17. Strawberry Meringue. — Line a pie dish with paste ; bake this carefully, and then place in it a thick layer of hulled strawberries; rather small ones are best for this purpose. Sprinkle them with powdered sugar, and heap over them a meringue made of t'he whites of THE PHYSICAL CULTURE COOK BOOK. 185 four eggs whipped stiff with half a cup of powdered sugar. Just before putting it in stir lightly into it a cupful of the berries. Set the pie plate containing the meringue in the oven long enough to brown delicately, and eat when perfectly cold. 18. Pumpkin Pie. — Cut a pumpkin in pieces without peeling. Scrape off the inner shreds that hold the seeds. Boil with a pint of water in a porcelain-lined kettle, for five or six hours. To four cups of pumpkin add four cups of milk, one even teaspoonful of salt, one tea- spoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful of ginger, three eggs well beaten, and one cup of sugar. Beat the custard well and taste it' to see if it is sweet enough. Put this mixture into deep pie plates lined with pastry, and bake for three-quarters of an hour. 19. Custard Pie. — Two eggs, one pint milk, a pinch salt, one-quarter cup sugarCustard Pie. Bake in under crust only in slow oven forty-five min- utes, or until ctfStard is set. 20. Cocoanut Pie. — Same as above, with one-half a grated cocoanut added. The milk must be heated to boiling pointCocoanut Pie1 and poured over the cocoanut.