Cherry Pie

Ingredients

• One pint seeded cherries
• 1/2 pint of sugar
• 1 dessertspoon butter

Method

1. 1

   If cherries are very ripe, put uncooked in a raw paste, cover with top pastry, stick with fork, and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 127. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cherry Pie. One cup of raw cranberries, % cup seeded raisins, 1 cup gran- ulated sugar, 1. heaping tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon flour. Cover bottom of pie pan with a raw paste, reserving enough for upper trust. Cream butter, add sugar, flour, the cranberries mashed and cut in half, also the raisins ; mix well, put this filling in paste, cover with top and stick with a fork. Bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven». Cherry Pie. One pint seeded cherries, % pint of sugar, 1 dessertspoon but- ter. If cherries are very ripe put, uncooked, in a raw paste, with top of pastry. Stick with fork, bake in moderate oven. Cherry Tart. Wash, and stone 1^ pounds of murillo or black cherries, put in saucepan with 1 teaspoon cold water, enough granulated sugar to sweeten, cook until tender. Have a rich paste, fill with the cherries, and set in moderate oven to bake. Strips of pastry may be put across, or a top of pastry. Prepare cherries, same way, and put in a sheet of pastry, rolled thin. Cook in baking dish, or put in bag and cook in kettle of boiling water. Serve with a rich sauce. Oooseberry Pie. Stew gooseberries until tender, sweeten, add 1 tablespoon but- KENTUCKY KECEIPT BOOK. 213 ter cut in bits, dredge with 1 teaspoon flour. Fruit can be put in raw crust, with top of pastry, or put in cooked shell with bars of pastry. Can mash fruit or leave whole. Serve with rich cream. Bipe Berry Pies. Line piepan with crust, fill half full of berries, dredge with 1 tablespoon sifted flour, if fruit is juicy, and sugar to sweeten, add more berries, cover with crust, slit in center. Bake a chestnut brown, dredge with pulverized sugar. Huckleberry and blackberry pies are improved by adding 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon ground ginger. Prepare according to preceding recipe. Cherry Pie. Stone enough cherries to half fill a raw crust, sprinkle over them 1 teacup granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon sifted flour, 1 dessertspoon butter

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