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Apricot pie. Use stewed dried apricots, sweeten to taste, and proceed as for Apple pie (above). Dried peach pie or Dried prime pie. Make by recipe for Apricot pie. Flavor with lemon juice and lemon rind and remove stones from prunes. Mock mince pie. Additional ingredient: i lemon {juice and grated rind). Use raisins and rhubarb for the fruit. Chop them, and add the other ingredients. Mix well and bake with two crusts. Custard pie. Additional ingredients : \ tsp. vanilla, a little nutmeg. Scald the milk ; beat eggs slightly, add sugar and salt, and pour on slowly the hot milk. Flavor and turn into a pie-plate lined with one crust according to General Directions. Bake about 30 min. in a rather hot oven, reducing heat when custard begins to set. Squash pie. Additional ingredients: ^ tsp, nutmeg or cinnamon, i^ c. cooked and sifted squash. Scald the milk ; mix sugar, egg, salt, spice, and milk. Pour this on the squash. Strain, Line pie-plate, pour in the squash mixture, and bake till crust is brown and the filling firm. Lemon pie. Additional ingredient : 6 tb. powdered sugar. Use juice and grated rind of the lemons. Bake a pastry shell according to General Directions and fill with a mixture made as follows : Mix dry ingredients, add lemon and egg yolks, and stir in slowly the boiling water. Cook in a double boiler for IS min., stirring till thick. Turn this into the shell and cover with a meringue made from the whites of eggs and powdered sugar. Bake 10 min. in a moderate oven. Orange pie. Additional ingredients: juice ^ lemon, 4 tb. powdered sugar. Use both rind and juice of orange. Make like Lemon pie (above), putting white of i egg into the filling and reserving the other 2 for a meringue. Chocolate pie. Additional ingredients : 2 tsp, vanilla, 3 oz. chocolate, 2 tb, powdered sugar. Mix sugar, flour, and salt ; add the beaten yolks of eggs, the butter, and the boiling water with chocolate melted in it. Cook till thick, stirring constantly. Flavor and pour into a pie-shell made according to General Directions. Cover with a meringue made from the whites of eggs and powdered sugar, and bake about 10 min. in a moderate oven. Butterscotch pie." Additional ingredients : 4 tb. powdered sugar, r tsp. lemon juice. Use brown sugar for the filling. Scald I c. milk ; mix flour and salt with rest of cold milk, pour on the hot milk, return to double boiler, and cook till smooth and thick, stirring constantly. Melt butter, add sugar, and cook till mixture bubbles. Stir into the cornstarch mixture, then add the 2 egg yolks. Pour into a pie-shell, cover with a meringue, and bake about 10 min. Florentine meringue. Additional ingredients : raspberry jam, chopped almonds. Use powdered sugar and whites of eggs only. Roll the paste into a sheet, cut in strips 2x4 in., and bake till light brown. Spread with jam, cover with a meringue, sprinkle with chopped almonds, and bake about 10 min. in a moderate oven. Trimmings left from pies may be used for these. Banbury tarts. Additional ingredients: rind and juice of I lemon, i common cracker, rolled fine. Beat egg slightly and add other ingredients. Roll out the paste and cut with large round cooky-cutter. Place 2 tsp, of the filling on J the paste, cover with the other rounds, press edges together, and bake about 20 min. in a rather hot oven. Melba tarts. Make ckou cases (p. 102) and fill with apricot jam. FROZEN DESSERTS Source. General. Food Value. For carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Cost. See cost of individual items. W,TB- M.K c... S.O,R Juice c; H„. TIlT' "r „,„ Pineapple sherbet , Lemon milk sherbet Custard ice cream . Vanilla ice cream . Ginger mousse . . ~ 2 C. I c. ijc. lie. Jc. = I tb. I tb.