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The Raleigh cook book

1907

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Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
ingredients. Mix well and bake at once in well-heated greased waifle irons. Cornmeal Dumpling (to be cooked with turnip salad).—1 cup meal: 1 heaping teaspoon lard; water; “galt. Mix as for cornbread. Form in round flat cakes. Drop in the pot in which the Va salad is boiling, half an hour before taking up. salad. ~~ PASTRY AND PIES. 39 PASTRY AND PIES. Pie Crust.—2 cups flour; % cup lard or butter; 1 teaspoon of galt. Sift flour and salt together; work in half the lard. Add water to make a stiff dough. Turn on a floured board and roll. Spread the remaining lard over surface, fold it, making three layers. Roll again and fit pan. Puii Paste.—To each pound of flour allow a pound of butter; use half the butter with the flour and cold water enough to mold i: roll it out quite thin and put on in small bits half the butter that remains. Dredge this with flour, roll up the paste, then roll it out again; then put on more butter and roll up as before; repeat this until the butter is all used. It must be done quickly; be careful not to handle it more than necessary. Put in a cool place until needed. Lemon Meringue.—1 cup hot water; *4 cup white sugar; 1 table- spoon butter; 1 tablespoon cornstarch, if desired; juice and rind 1 lemonLemon Meringue Pie; 2 eggs. Put the water on to boil; beat the yolks until very light; add the Sugar and beat again. Add the cornstarch moistened with a little cold water. Stir this into the boiling water and cook until thick- ened. Add the butter; remove from the fire; stir in the grated rind and juice of the lemon. Line one pie dish with plain paste and brown in a quick oven. Pour into this the filling. Add gradually two tablespoons granulated sugar to the whites of the eggs, beating all the while; when it is all in beat until stiff and glossy, then place over the top of the pie by spoonfuls and put back in the oven to brown.” Lemon Pie.—Grated rind and juice of one lemon; 1 cup sugar; yolks of 3 eggs; 1 tablespoon butter; 3 tablespoons milk; 2 teaspoons cornstarch, or 8 teaspoons flourLemon Pie. Beat the yolks and sugar together; add the juice and rind of lemon. Stir in the cornstarch... Add melted butter and milk. Use whites of eggs for meringue. Beat until stiff and add 3 tablespoons pulverized sugar. Spread on pie and brown. Orange Pie—2 oranges, grated rind and juice; 4 eggs; 1 cup sugar; 1 tablespoon butter. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the beaten yolks, then the rind and juice of the oranges, and lastly the whites beaten to a froth, and mix in lightly. Make a good pie crust, spread it on a pie Sweedish Apple Pie. plate, just the bottom, and bake in oven; when done, cool them. and make a good apple sauce and have it cold; put the sauce on the top of the crust, then put the other crust over and then the sauce. “Se fc F ¢ ey SF 40 THE RALEIGH COOK BOOK. Whip whites of 3 eggs and add 3 tablespoons sugar; pour it over the top of the pie and bake slowly until dry. Serve with custard sauce a (using the yolks of the 3 eggs). This is very nice served just with the apple sauce on crusts, without the meringue or custard. 7 Dried Apple or Peach Pie.—Two-thirds cup of stewed apples or peaches run through a sieve; yolks of 2 eggs; 1 cup of sweet cream or milk; sugar to taste. Flavor and beat all together and bake in one crust. Then spread over the top a meringue made of the whites beaten with 2 tablespoons sugar. Cocoanut Pie.——1 teacup cocoanut; 1 teacup sweet milk; 2 eggs 2 tablespoons fiour; 1 tablespoon butter. Soak the cocoanut in the milk for a few hour; when ready to make pie, take the flour, mix smooth in milk; stir this thickening into % cup of sweet milk or water. Place on stove, stir until it ; thickens; add the butter while warm. When cold, add a little salt,