Almond Layer Pie

Ingredients

• 2 cupfuls flour
• ¥% teaspoonful salt
• 7 tablespoonfuls Crisco
• Water
• 6 tablespoonfuls Crisco
• 3 eggs
• 34 cupful sugar
• Y% cupful blanched powdered
• ¥% teaspoonful salt
• 1 lemon

Method

1. 1

   Make short crust of Crisco, flour, salt, and water.

2. 2

   Roll out thin and line Criscoed pie plate with piece of paste.

3. 3

   For filling, cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, almonds, salt, grated rind and one tablespoonful lemon juice.

4. 4

   Mix well and spread one-half of mixture on to pastry.

5. 5

   Then cover with a layer of pastry, the rest of mixture, and lastly cover with pastry.

6. 6

   Bake in a moderate oven until brown.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Almond Layer Pie For Pastry 2 cupfuls flour ¥% teaspoonful salt 7 tablespoonfuls Crisco Water For Filling 6 tablespoonfuls Crisco ~ 3 eggs 34 cupful sugar Y% cupful blanched powdered 1 lemon

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