Flaky Crust for Family Pies

Name: Flaky Crust for Family Pies
Ingredients: Put one pound of flour in a bowl; mix with it a teaspoonful of baking powder; whip the whites of two eggs to a stiff foam; half a pound of butter; make all into a stiff paste with ice-cold water (about one gill); a scant saltspoonful of salt

From Catherine Owen's new cook book .., 1885

Requires a quick oven.

Presented as published in 1885. 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 Catherine Owen's new cook book .. (1885) by Helen Alice (Matthews) Nitsch, page 106. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FLAKY CRUST POR FAMILY PIES. South Kensington Training School of CooTcery. Put one pound of flour in a bowl, mix with it a teaspoon- ful of baking powder, whip the whites of two eggs to a stiff foam, put them to the flour with a scant saltspoon- ful of salt, and make all into a stiff paste with ice-cold water (about one gill). Flour a board, turn the paste out on it; flour the roll- ing-pin, and roll it to a thin sheet. Divide half a pound of butter

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