Pastry for One Pie

Ingredients

• one heaping cup of pastry flour
• one saltspoonful of baking-powder
• one saltspoonful of salt
• from one third to one half of a cup of butter and lard mixed

Method

1. 1

   Mix the baking powder and salt with the flour, and rub in the lard.

2. 2

   Mix quite stiff with cold water.

3. 3

   Roll out, put the butter on the paste in little pieces, and sprinkle with flour.

4. 4

   Fold over, and roll out.

5. 5

   Roll up like a jelly roll.

6. 6

   Divide in two parts, and roll to fit the plate.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 192. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pastry for One Fie, — One heaping cup of pastry flour ^ one saltspoonful of laking-poioder,, one saltspoon- ful of salt, and from one third to one half of a cup of butter and lard mixed. Mix the baking-powder and salt with the flour, and rub in the lard. Mix quite stiff with cold water. Roll out, put the butter on the paste in little pieces, and sprinkle with flour. Fold over, and roll out. Roll up like a jelly roll. Divide in two parts, and roll to fit the plate. Cream Paste. — Mix half a teaspoonful of salt and half a saltspoonfid of soda witli one cup of cream, and stir in flour enough to mix to a stiff paste. Roll half an inch thick. Cut half a cup of butter into small pieces, and put it on the paste. Sprinkle with flour, fold and roll out thin ; roll up, cut a piece from the end, and roll to fit the plate. 324 The Boston Cook Book. Plain Paste, {Mrs, Tilton,) — Beat the white of one egg with one tablespoonful of lard. Work it into one quart of flour with the hands, till fine as meal. Add about one cup of ice water. Roll out, and put half a pound of butter on the paste in little pieces, either all at once or half of it at a time. Dredge lightly with flour. Fold the edges over, roll up, pat, and roll out. Lemon Pie^ JSTo, 1. — Mix one heaping tablespoonful of cornstarch with one cup of sugar / add one scant cup of boiling water^ and boil five minutes. Add one tea- spoonfid of butter^ the juice of one large lemoji^ and 072e egg^ well beaten. Bake between two crusts. No. 2. {Miss M. L. Clarke) — Mix three table- spoonfids of cornstarch^ one saltspoonful of salt

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