Vinegar Pies

Ingredients

• One and a half cups good vinegar
• one cup of water
• lump of butter size of an egg
• sugar enough to sweeten to the taste
• flavor with lemon
• take five eggs
• with one cup of water
• two heaping teaspoonfuls of flour

Method

1. 1

   Combine vinegar, water, butter, and sugar in a stew-pan.

2. 2

   Beat the yolks of the eggs with water and flour, then add to the boiling mixture.

3. 3

   Prepare crust for four pies, fill, and bake.

4. 4

   Beat the whites with sugar and spread on top when done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 458. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

VINEGAR PIES. One and a half cups good vinegar, one cup of water, lump of butter size of an egg, sugar enough to sweeten to the taste ; flavor with lemon . PUDDINGS. 551 put in stew-pan on stove ; take five eggs, beat the yolks with one cup of water and two heaping teaspoonfuls of flour

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