Mock Cherry Pie

Ingredients

• one and one-half cups cranberries
• three-fourths cup seeded and shredded raisins
• one cup sugar
• one tablespoon flour
• a sprinkle of salt
• dot over with one tablespoon butter
• Add two tablespoons orange juice

Method

1. 1

   Mix cranberries, raisins, sugar, flour, and salt.

2. 2

   Pile in a pie pan lined with Plain Paste, dot with butter, add orange juice, cover with Rich Paste, and bake.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty-two Sunday dinners (1913) by Elizabeth O. Hiller, page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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