Buttermilk Pie-Crust

Ingredients

• Take a pint of buttermilk
• one large teacupful of lard
• one teaspoonful of salt
• a teaspoonful of soda
• flour enough to form a soft dough

Method

1. 1

   Mix lard and flour by rubbing together, then add the other ingredients to form a soft dough.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a teaspoonf ul of sait and a pièce of bntter the sîze of an egg. Mix thèse lîghtly together wîth a little cold water, adding the water a lîttle at a time^ nntil the flonr is made a nice paste; work it together, and roU ît ont to half an inch în thîckness. Then divide a ponnd of bntter in six parts, spread onô part over the paste, then f old it and roll it ont again, nntil yon can perceîve the bntter throngh ; then spread over another part, fold it np, and roll ont again, and so continue nntil ail the bntter is nsed, and the paste has been worked over six times. It is now ready for making into pies, pnflfs or any other pnrpose. Flonr the slab and roUing-pin, and roll it ont to a qnarter of an inch in thickness. A! marble slab and roUing-pin are best for pastry, and mnch more durable than wood. Af ter nsing them, scrape them clean, wash them flrst with cold water, then pour scalding water over them, and wipe them dry. H!ave a sieve ready to sif t any flonr you may wish to use ; this is but little trouble or dday and it is always best to sift flour. To gild pastry, wet it over when nearly doue, with the yolk of an egg beaten with a Uttle milk. PIB-OEUST. Three and a half cups of flour, one cup of sweet lard, one teaspoonf ul of sait, one teaspoonful of baking pow- der, and a cupf ul of very cold water. Mix with a knif e, using the hands as little as possible. BoU and eut af ter the crust is on the pie-plate. 188 LA CUISINE CREOLE. BUTTEBMIIiK PIB-CRUST — ^VBBY WHOLESOME. Take a pint of buttermilk, add one large teacupf ul of lard, one teaspoonf ul of sait, and a teaspoonf ni of soda and flour enough to form a soft dongh

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.