Cream Pie

Ingredients

• the yolks of two eggs
• one cup of sugar
• 1% tablespoons cornstarch
• a pinch of salt
• 1% pints of milk

Method

1. 1

   Cream yolks and sugar, add cornstarch and salt.

2. 2

   Stir into boiling milk, cook a few minutes, pour into pie shell, and top with whipped egg whites and cocoanut.

3. 3

   Brown in the oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one cup of sugar an half a cup of flour, wet the flour with milk, season with bes | - meg and a little butter, add enough milk to half cover apples. f BANANA—One cup sweet milk, three-fourths cup sugar, 3 two tablespoons flour, two eggs (save whites of one egg for frosting). Cook this like thick cream, add one teaspoon | vanilla; after cooking bake the crust and slice two bananas a in the crust and pour the custard over them; beat the egg- — white stiff and add two tablespoons sugar; ‘spread on the pie and. brown in the oven. By adding two tablespoons of grated chocolate to the custard and omitting the bananas” you have a fine chocolate pie recipe. oy ie ~BUTTERMILK—Two cups of puttermilk, two eggs, two- tablespoons flour,-two tablespoons butter; flavor itn, Jemon.¢ ‘Tastes like lemon pies. Saree aiid ~~. CARROT—Three carrots, two eggs, one cup. milk, “one-_ " fourth teaspoon extract of cinnamon, allspice, “grated nut-_ meg; one-half teaspoon ginger. Carrots are to be boiled and 5 mashed, rest of recipe added; put in crust and bake. © CHEESE—One pound dairy cheese, grate or mash it, put 3 n two eggs, four tablespoons sugar, half cup sultana raisins, % wo tablespoons cream, One teaspoon vanilla. Bake. with é “wo crusts. CHERRY—One quart sour cherries, two tablespoons: flou . hree-fourths cup sugar. Stone cherries, add flour and suga stir until flour is mixed well. A sprinkle of flour on und erust, then add fruit. Bake with two sph e If flour. - juice will never run out. CHERRY MOCK—One pint cranberries cut in 4 wines re) half cup raisins, ohe cup sugar,-pinch salt; one tablespoon ~ flour and one tablespoon butter rubbed together; over this. - pour one cup boiling water (stirring it), add one teaspoon . vanilla and cook all for 10 minutes. Bake in upper tin e - crust same as any fruit pie. Ste CHESS—Beat the yolks of three eggs with one ) --gugar, add one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of flour, ‘teaspoon. vanilla and milk enough for two pies (about t eupfuls). Bake with one crust only, using the remain whites of eggs for frosting. Brown in oven slightly. a _. CHOCOLATE—Grate a small half cup. of bitter choc ate. and put into a pan with one cup hot water. Take butter the size of an egg, one cup of sugar and. the beaten. yolks y two eggs, two tablespoons of cornstarch dissolved in a water, one teaspoon of vanilla. Mix well and cook, thi into a baked crust with the whites of the eggs on a eats in the oven, : PR ho writes He o -COCOANUT—One- half cup cocoanut doalcedt in one. cup is) Relic One scant cup of ane creamed together. Into the #r one heaping tablespoon of flour and the yolks of two eges. Use the beaten whites of the eggs for meringue. COCOANUT CUSTARD—One and one-half ate ow eran Sugar and a heaping tablespoon of butter; cream together. — | Beat two eggs separately and add yolks to creamed mixture, a -also a pinch of salt and a little nutmeg. Scald pint of milk, let cool, add 1% cups grated cocoanut and beat in whites: 4 - stir all together. Line deep pie-tin with rich crust, prick it © - well with a fork, pour in mixture and put in very ‘hot oven 4 until custard is set; then turn fire very low and bake 45 minutes. This recipe can also be used for cream pie by ~ , omitting the nutmeg and cocoanut and adding vanilla. CRANBERRY—One large cup ‘cranberries cut in halves 2 fengthwise, one-half cup seeded raisins cut fine, one cup sugar, 1% tablespoons flour mixed with sugar, one-half cup ~ water, three teaspoons vanilla. Bake with two cru&8ts. CRANBERRY MAPLE SYRUP—Line a pie tin with a thin, delicious pie crust, put in the bottom a teacupful oft ; maple syrup which has been mixed with a teaspoonful of he flour; over this spread one teacupful of cranberries (raw), ai cover with a thin crust and-bake. i REAM—Cream together the yolks of two eggs and one < cup of sugar, 1% tablespoons cornstarch and a pinch of salt. ' Have ready 1% pints of milk

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