Cranberry Pie

Ingredients

• 2 cups of cranberries
• 1/2 cup of water
• 1/2 cup of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Cook cranberries with water and sugar for 10 minutes.

2. 2

   Line pie plates with good pastry and fill with mixture, putting strips of pastry across the pie, and bake about 25 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from San Rafael cook book, 1906 (1906) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CRANBERRY PIE— Mrs. Fronmuller. Cook 2 cups of cranberries with % cup of water, % cup of sugar for ]0 minutes. Line pie plates with good pastry and fill with mixture, putting strips of the pastry across the pie, and bake about 25 minutes. You can also bake your crust first, by covering the outside of the pan with crust and bake upside down, fill with mixture and ornament the top with fancy leaves previously baked. RHUBARB PIE— Mrs. Chas. Shaw, Cloverdale. One large cup stewed rhubarb; 1 cup sugar; yolks of 2 eggs; 1 teas- poon flour; 1 teaspoon butter; flavor with lemon; whites of eggs beaten stiff; add 2 tablespoons of sugar; spread on top and brown. XTse under crust only. BANANA PIE, NO. 1.— Mrs. A. A. Smith. Line a pan with good pastry; slice in very thinly 2 bananas; make a custard of 1 pint of milk, 2 well beaten eggs, a pinch of salt and 2 tablespoons of sugar; pour over the bananas, and bake as a custard pie. BANANA PIE, NO. 2— Mrs. A. A. Smith. Make a banana pie with a lower crust only; bake the crust first, fill it with sliced bananas and powdered sugar; the fruit will soften in a few minutes; cover with whipped cream, and eat at once. SQUASH PIES — Mrs. W. F. Jones. Line the baking plates with nice, rich crust. Steam a Hubbard squash, and when done pass it through a colander. For 2 pies, beat up 4 eggs, add 1 pint of squash, a little salt, 1 cup of sugar, 1 heaping teaspoon ginger, and % of a quart of milk. Bake until the mixture sets. 1 cup of cream in place of some of the milk is a great improvement. SQUASH PIES — Mrs. Geo. Rodden. Cream % cup of butter, beat in % cup of sugar, % teaspoon salt, % teaspoon ground mace, yolks of 3 eggs or 1 whole egg and the yolk of another beaten light, 2 tablespoons sherry wine, 1% cups, cooked and strained squash, and a large cup of rich creamy milk. This makes 1 pie. Line pan with rich plain or puff paste. 180 PASTRY AND PIES SWEDISH APPLE CAKE— Miss A. Gordon. Roll out some rich pie paste, brush the edge with yolk of egg, and let it bake at a medium heat. Peel 6 apples, cut them into small pieces, and mix them with 1% ounces of sugar; cook until quite soft; mix with them % ounce of finely shredded orange peel, and the same of burnt almohds; add a little cinnamon and some grated lemon, and spread this mixture upon the paste. Beat up the whites of 2 eggs to snow. Mix in 2i/^ ounces of sugar, and put this into a conical, rolled paper bag; squeeze a network as well as a wreath-like edge on the cake; dust it with sugar, and put it into the oven until it is a pale gold- en color. ORANGE TARTLETS— Mrs. H. V. Robinson. 3 large fine oranges (juice of 3 and rind 1), 1 cup sugar, 2 dessert- spoons butter, juice of % a lemon, 3 teaspoons cornstarch wet with lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of water, 1 egg; beat to a smooth cream and let it boil up, then pour into patty tins lined with crust, and bake. JESSIE TARTS — Mrs. Thos. S. Bonneau. Line gem tins with a rich pie crust, pinching up edges so that they will be as deep as possible, then fill them with the filling and bake in a moderately quick oven until brown and firm. Filling — Yolks of 4 eggs beaten with 1 cup of sugar,

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