Apple Pot Pie

Ingredients

• a pint of flour
• a heaping spoonful of lard
• a little salt
• one dozen apples
• one large cup of sugar
• one tablespoonful of spices
• two of molasses
• one of butter
• add water until the fruit is nearly covered

Method

1. 1

   Make the pastry by rubbing lard into flour with salt, moisten with cold water.

2. 2

   Prepare apples and place in a baking pan with sugar, spices, molasses, and butter.

3. 3

   Bake until softened, then add flour to thicken.

4. 4

   Roll out pastry, cover the pie, and bake until browned.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 101. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

APPLE POT PIE. First, the pastry : Rub into a pint of flour a heaping spoonful of lard. Strew in a little salt, and work it until the mass becomes numberless little globules and balls. Then moisten with cold water, and press them together until they adhere, and your pastry is made. It must not be kneaded or worked over at all. Let any cook try this method, and he will find it the best and easiest way to make fine leaf paste, and he will never again countenance the old rolling, larding, butter- spreading system. Now for the fruit : Pare, core and quarter one dozen apples. Put them in a baking pan, with one large cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of spices, two of molasses and one of butter; add water until the fruit is nearly covered

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