Irish Potato Pie

Ingredients

• one pint of mashed potatoes
• one pint of sugar
• one tea-cupful of butter
• six eggs beaten separately
• the juice of one lemon
• one tea-spoonful of nutmeg
• one tea-spoonful of mace

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks, spices, and potatoes.

2. 2

   Beat in egg whites and bake in pastry shells.

3. 3

   Serve cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 116. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one tea-spoonful of nutmeg, four eggs, whites and yelks beaten separately, juice and rind of one lemon, and one tea-cupful of water. Cream the butter and sugar, add the yelks, the spice, and the lemon. Beat the potatoes in by degrees, and until all is light, then the water, and lastly the beaten whites. Use no top crust. SWEET POTATO PIE. Boil or steam two very large, or four medium-sized, sweet potatoes until soft. To one pint of water add one tea-spoon- ful of ground cinnamon, one tea-spoonful of grated nutmeg, two dozen whole cloves, and let it come to a boiling. Cream one and one-half tea-cupful of white sugar, one cupful of butter, and one table-spoonful of corn starch together. Stir this into the spiced water until it thickens. Line a pie-pan or dish with rich pastry, and glaze with the white of an egg, then fill with the sweet potatoes that have been skinned 228 The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. and thinly sliced. Pour in the sirup, put on a top crust, and bake three-quarters of an hour in a moderate oven. If it browns too rapidly, cover with paper. Mrs. Robert Hixer. IRISH POTATO PIE. Take one pint of mashed potatoes, one pint of sugar, one tea-cupful of butter, six eggs beaten separately, the juice of one lemon squeezed into the potato while hot, one tea-spoon- ful of nutmeg, one tea-spoonful of mace

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.