Soak I pint of navy beans overnight. In the morning put them in salt water and boil until the beans drop to pieces. Run through a colander. An hour before dinner take a tablespoon of melted butter and i tablespoon of flour, add Yz pint of milk, and cook until thick. Stir into the beans, and add 2 well-beaten eggs✪ Creamed Beans. Pour the mixture in a greased baking dish, cover with bread crumbs, and bake a nice rich brown. Season with salt and pepper before baking. PIES. "No soil upon earth is so dear to our eyes As the soil we first stirred in terrestrial pies." — Holmes. PIES. Pastry. One quart of flour, % pound of butter and lard mixed, i teaspoon of salt, and enough ice water to make the dough hold together. Chop the shortening into the flour, using a knife instead of your hands. Mix lightly with the water and roll out in small pieces, keeping the rest as cold as possible. The best pastry is that which is worked as little in the making as will make it hold together, and cut off just enough to fill one pan, rolling each piece separately. It will then be light and flaky. Chess Cake Pie. Beat I pound of white sugar into the yelks of 2 eggs, cream Yi pound of white sugar into >2 pound of butter. Add to the two, after they have been well mixed, Y^ pound of chopped citron and the juice of 2 lemons✪ Chess Cake Pie, or more if necessary. Bake in one pie crust and put a meringue over the top. Love Puffs. Make a rich pufif paste and roll very thin ; cut the size of a saucer, sprinkle with pulverized sugar and cinnamon✪ Love Puffs, fold over and bake. Sift sugar over them when they come from the oven. Cocoanut Cream Pie. One quart of milk, 4 eggs (yelks), 4 tablespoons of sugar, I tablespoon of corn starch, i tablespoon of Sauer's extract of vanilla, I/2 of a grated cocoanut✪ Cocoanut Cream Pie. Boil the milk and make a rich 68 TESTED VIRGINIA RECIPES. custard. Beat in the cocoanut when the custard is half cold and bake in one crust. Make a meringue of the whites and spread over the top. Cocoanut Pie. Rub to a cream Yj pound of sugar and Yx pound of butter ; add the whites of 7 eggs (well beaten) and i grated cocoanut. Season with wine, Sauer's lemon or vanilla extract✪ Cocoanut Pie. Bake in one crust. Cocoanut Pie Baked in a Double Crust. One grated cocoanut, whites of 5 eggs (well beaten), ^ pound of sugar, i cup of milk, i tablespoon of butter, i table- spoon of Sauer's vanilla. Mix well and bake in a double crust. Let the top crust be formed of crossed strips, showing the filling in between. Cocoanut Gems. Six eggs (whites and yelks beaten separately), i grated cocoanut, i pound of sugar, Sauer's vanilla extract to taste. Beat the yelks and add the sugar, beat the whites and add the cocoanut, and mix together. Line patty pans with pastry and fill with the cocoanut. Drop a spoon of meringue in each one and brown. Lemon Pie. Six eggs, 2 cups of sugar, i cup of milk, 2 tablespoons of corn starch, 3 lemons, rind and juice. Beat the yelks and add the sugar, milk, corn starch and lemon. Set in a pan of boiling water and let it thicken over the fire ; fill pie pans and bake brown. Make a meringue of 6 whites beaten to a froth and 6 tablespoons of sugar added one at a time ; season with Sauer's vanilla and spread over the pies. Let them dry out in a slow oven for 20 minutes, with the door open. The meringue will not fall if cooked in this way. PIES. 69 ✪ Cocoanut Pie Baked in a Double Crust

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Soak I pint of navy beans overnight. In the morning put them in salt water and boil until the beans drop to pieces. Run through a colander. An hour before dinner take a tablespoon of melted butter and i tablespoon of flour, add Yz pint of milk, and cook until thick. Stir into the beans, and add 2 well-beaten eggs. Pour the mixture in a greased baking dish, cover with bread crumbs, and bake a nice rich brown. Season with salt and pepper before baking. PIES. "No soil upon earth is so dear to our eyes As the soil we first stirred in terrestrial pies." — Holmes. PIES. Pastry. One quart of flour, % pound of butter and lard mixed, i teaspoon of salt, and enough ice water to make the dough hold together. Chop the shortening into the flour, using a knife instead of your hands. Mix lightly with the water and roll out in small pieces, keeping the rest as cold as possible. The best pastry is that which is worked as little in the making as will make it hold together, and cut off just enough to fill one pan, rolling each piece separately. It will then be light and flaky. Chess Cake Pie. Beat I pound of white sugar into the yelks of 2 eggs, cream Yi pound of white sugar into >2 pound of butter. Add to the two, after they have been well mixed, Y^ pound of chopped citron and the juice of 2 lemons, or more if necessary. Bake in one pie crust and put a meringue over the top. Love Puffs. Make a rich pufif paste and roll very thin ; cut the size of a saucer, sprinkle with pulverized sugar and cinnamon, fold over and bake. Sift sugar over them when they come from the oven. Cocoanut Cream Pie. One quart of milk, 4 eggs (yelks), 4 tablespoons of sugar, I tablespoon of corn starch, i tablespoon of Sauer's extract of vanilla, I/2 of a grated cocoanut. Boil the milk and make a rich 68 TESTED VIRGINIA RECIPES. custard. Beat in the cocoanut when the custard is half cold and bake in one crust. Make a meringue of the whites and spread over the top. Cocoanut Pie. Rub to a cream Yj pound of sugar and Yx pound of butter ; add the whites of 7 eggs (well beaten) and i grated cocoanut. Season with wine, Sauer's lemon or vanilla extract. Bake in one crust. Cocoanut Pie Baked in a Double Crust. One grated cocoanut, whites of 5 eggs (well beaten), ^ pound of sugar, i cup of milk, i tablespoon of butter, i table- spoon of Sauer's vanilla. Mix well and bake in a double crust. Let the top crust be formed of crossed strips, showing the filling in between. Cocoanut Gems. Six eggs (whites and yelks beaten separately), i grated cocoanut, i pound of sugar, Sauer's vanilla extract to taste. Beat the yelks and add the sugar, beat the whites and add the cocoanut, and mix together. Line patty pans with pastry and fill with the cocoanut. Drop a spoon of meringue in each one and brown. Lemon Pie. Six eggs, 2 cups of sugar, i cup of milk, 2 tablespoons of corn starch, 3 lemons, rind and juice. Beat the yelks and add the sugar, milk, corn starch and lemon. Set in a pan of boiling water and let it thicken over the fire ; fill pie pans and bake brown. Make a meringue of 6 whites beaten to a froth and 6 tablespoons of sugar added one at a time ; season with Sauer's vanilla and spread over the pies. Let them dry out in a slow oven for 20 minutes, with the door open. The meringue will not fall if cooked in this way. PIES. 69

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