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Custard Pie

From Household hints, 1881
Presented as published in 1881. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Household hints (1881) by Emma Whitcomb Babcock, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

custard pie ; add one cup of cocoanut to one pint of sweet milk, two eggs, sweeten to taste, flavor with vanilla. Put the white of the egg on the top if you choose. Cassava Pie, — Make it like cocoanut pie, but substitute cassava for cocoanut. Pumpkin Pie, — Stew the pumpkin the day before you wish to bake pies ; cook till very soft, so that you can easily rub it through a sieve. Take three eggs

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