Americandessert
Apple Pie
From Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .., 1904
A traditional recipe from grandmothers.
Presented as published in 1904. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record
Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
apple-pie to-day." — Chaslotte Bronte ("Shirley"). THE apple-pie of our grand- mothers was worth fighting over. These skilful ladies made a very short pie-crust of lard cut into sifted flour and wet into paste with ice-water. This they rolled out in a long, narrow strip, dabbed with butter, rolled to- gether, and, standing it on edge, rolled it out flat again. For the upper crust 208 this process was three times repeated. They filled the pie heaping full with tart, juicy apples, sliced, and buttered the edges of the under crust before laying on the upper crust. When the pie was baked this upper crust was deftly lifted off and a lump of butter, some sugar
Read the full page as publishedCollapse the page
Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.