Butterscotch Pie

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 3 tablespoonfuls water
• 1 cupful dark brown sugar
• 1% teaspoonful salt
• 1 cupful milk
• 1 tablespoonful powdered sugar
• 3 tablespoonfuls flour
• 2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
• 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
• 1 baked crust

Method

1. 1

   Put yolk of egg into saucepan, add brown sugar, flour, milk, water, Crisco, salt, and vanilla.

2. 2

   Stir over fire until thickened.

3. 3

   Pour into baked pie shell.

4. 4

   Beat egg white, add powdered sugar, spread on top, and brown lightly in oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1% teaspoonful salt 4 tablespoonfuls Crisco 4 teaspoonful baking powder 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water Sift flour, salt and baking powder into basin, rub Crisco lightly into them, then stir in boiling water. Cool paste before using, or it will be too sticky to handle. Sufficient for one pie. 93 Pastries Butterscotch Pie 1 egg ' 3 tablespoonfuls water 1 cupful dark brown sugar \% teaspoonful salt 1 cupful milk 1 tablespoonful powdered sugar 3 tablespoonfuls flour 1 baked crust 2 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract

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