Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients

• a large cup of stewed pumpkin
• two eggs
• season with ginger
• and molasses
• and brown sugar

Method

1. 1

   Stew pumpkin until soft, rub through a sieve, mix with eggs, milk, and seasonings, then bake until a brown crust forms.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household hints (1881) by Emma Whitcomb Babcock, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two eggs well beaten, one small tea-spoonful of soda dissolved in a little hot water ; then stir in com meal till you have a batter a little thicker than for griddle cakes. Fruit may be added. Put in a bag and boil an hour. Make a sauce of cream, sugar, and nutmeg. Velvet Cream, — Whites of four eggs beaten to a stiff froth ; two table-spoonfuls each of sugar, cuiTant jelly, and raspberry jam. Beat all together briskly. Serve with or without cream. With cake it is a delicious dish for dessert. Date Pudding, — Six ounces of suet chopped fine, six ounces of bread crumbs, six ounces of sugar, three eggs, two tea-spoonf ills of cinnamon, one wine-glass half full of bran- dy, one half or three quarters of a pound of stoned dates. Beat the sugar and eggs together, then stir in the other in- gredients ; steam for two hours. Serve with sauce made in this way : The yolks of three eggs, pulverized sugar enough to thicken them, a little wine, the whites of the three eggs 42 HOUSEnOLD HINTS. beaten to a stiff froth, and stirred in last. If you have no conveniences for weighing, measure the suet, bread, and sugar, putting in equal quantities of each. Plain Boiled Pudding, — One quart of milk, yolks of five eggs, a little salt, with flour enough to make a batter as for griddle cakes. Have a jmdding-bag. made which is smaller at the bottom than the top, dip it into hot water, sprinkle with flour, tie tightly, and boil for three quarters of an hour. Cocoanut Pudding. — Follow the directions given for bread pudding, omit the lemon, and add a cup of dessicated cocoanut ; soak it for half an hour before putting it in the oven. This requires no sauce; PIES. To make a good, tender, but not too rich crust for any pie, a good rule is to allow one heaping table-spoonful of lard to one cup of flour, a pinch of salt, and enough water to wet it so that it can be rolled out smoothly ; rub the lard into the flour with your hands ; do not handle it after it is mixed with the water any more than you can help, as this tends to make it tough. One cup and a half of flour, other ingredients in proportion, will make the crust for one me- dium-sized pie. At first there is a probability that you will waste flour by putting more than you need on the board, but you can remedy this by wiping the flour and little bits of dough off the board into your flour sifter, and sift out the flour. If you make more crust than you wish to use, you can roll it out thin, cut out round cakes with the cookie cutter, in. every other one cut three little round holes with a silver thimble, bake them, and when tea is about ready put jelly on the plain crust, and lay the one with thimble-holes in on the top; press down on the jelly, and nothing will please the children at the table so much. PUDDmGS AND PIES, 43 Cultivate a tendency to bake things too much rather than not enough. Lemon Pie. — Prepare a crust for the pie in a deep plate, then stir one table-spoonful of corn starch into a little cold water, add one cup of boiling water, let all come to a boil ; then add seven table-spoonfuls of sugar, the well-beaten yolks of four eggs, and the grated juice and rind of two lemons ; while this is baking beat the whites of the four eggs and one heaping table-spoonful of pulverized sugar to a stiff froth ; when the pie is baked, spread this smoothly over the top, then set it in the oven for two or three min- utes ; this is long enough to give it the desired golden- brown color. This is a delicious pie, and not too rich to be enjoyed. The quantity here given will make a very large pie. Apple Pie, — If your apples are easily cooked, you may put them into the crust with sugar, spice, and a little water. If the apples are hard, stew or steam them first. Cocoanut Pie, — Make an under crust only, but bring it up well around the edge, as for custard pie ; add one cup of cocoanut to one pint of sweet milk, two eggs, sweeten to taste, flavor with vanilla. Put the white of the egg on the top if you choose. Cassava Pie, — Make it like cocoanut pie, but substitute cassava for cocoanut. Pumpkin Pie, — Stew the pumpkin the day before you wish to bake pies ; cook till very soft, so that you can easily rub it through a sieve. Take three eggs to two pies if eggs are not plen-ty ; if they are, put two in each pie, a large cup of stewed pumpkin to one pie, milk enough to thin it sufficiently — that is, to make it like custard, season with ginger and molasses and brown sugar

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