Apple Pie

Ingredients

• Grate six good sized apples
• juice of two lemons
• half cup butter
• two cups sugar
• four eggs
• half cup rich milk
• use nutmeg if you like

Method

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   Mix ingredients and bake in paste with strips across top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 110. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apple Pie. — Six apples of medium size, a tumb- lerful of crushed sugar, three tablespoonfuls of butter or two tumblerfuls of rich cream, six eggs, the juice and grated rind of one lemon ; peel the apples and grate them ; cream the butter and sugar together ; beat the whites and yolks of the eggs sepa- rately; mix as for cake. Bake in paste. Green Apple Pie. — Pare, core and slice tart apples, boil and mash ; sweeten to taste, adding a little butter, nutmeg or lemon ; put in pie pan lined with pastry and check across with strips of pastry. Sliced Apple Pie. — Peel and slice wine sap apples — pick out seed — line pie pans with pastry ; lay slices of apples, sugar and butter, several layers, sprinkle nutmeg and cinnamon over them; run into the stove with a pan of water over it to keep 192 HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. from browning too quickly; if apples are not juicy add two tablespoons of water to each pie ; use plenty of butter and sugar (this makes the syrup), have no top crust. Delicious. — Mrs. Lillard. Apple Pie. — Grate six good sized apples and juice of two lemons; stir this into half cup butter and two cups sugar creamed together; add the yolks of four eggs well beaten, half cup rich milk; then stir in lightly the beaten whites of four eggs ; use nutmeg if you like

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