Huckleberry Pie

Ingredients

• 1 quart of picked huckleberries
• 1 teaspoon flour
• a dash of salt
• a little nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Put huckleberries in cold water, reject imperfect ones.

2. 2

   Line a buttered pie pan with paste, fill with berries, dredge with sugar, flour, salt, and nutmeg.

3. 3

   Cover with pastry, make incisions, and bake in a hot oven for 30 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

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.

Huckleberry Pie. Put 1 quart of picked huckleberries into cold water, take up and reject all imperfect ones. Line a buttered pie pan with paste, let berries be % inch deep, for each quart of berries allow % coffee cup of brown sugar, dredge over 1 teapsoon flour, a dash of salt and a little nutmeg. Put top of pastry, make several incisions on either side, press crust together around edge and trim off with sharp knife. Bake in hot oven % of an hour. Mock 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

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