Plain Pastry

Name: Plain Pastry
Ingredients: one and one-half cupfuls of flour; half teaspoonful salt; a half-cupful of chilled lard; just enough ice-water to make a stiff dough

From Cookery for little girls, 1910

Sprinkle on flour enough to keep from sticking to rolling-pin.

Presented as published in 1910. 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 Cookery for little girls (1910) by Olive Hyde Foster, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN PASTRY Sift one and one-half cupfuls of flour with one- half teaspoonful salt. Chop through this until like meal a half-cupful of chilled lard. Add just 113 THE THANKSGIVING DINNER Making Pies 113 COOKERY FOR LITTLE GIRLS enough ice-water| to make a stiff dough,

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