Washington Pie

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• half cup butter
• 3 cups sifted flour
• 4 eggs
• half tea-spoonful cream tartar
• i table-spoon corn starch
• half a pint of milk
• flavor with vanilla
• the white of i egg
• 8 table-spoonfuls of fine sifted sugar
• flavoring with lemon

Method

1. 1

   For the crust, mix sugar, butter, flour, eggs, and cream tartar.

2. 2

   For the filling, boil corn starch in milk, beat yolk of egg, stir into milk, flavor with vanilla, and add beaten egg whites when cold.

3. 3

   Spread filling between cakes and ice with egg white and sugar mixture flavored with lemon.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 116. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WASHINGTON PIE. For the crust use 2 cups sugar, half cup butter, 3 cups sifted flour, 4 eggs, half tea-spoonful cream tartar. For the filling, i table-spoon corn starch boiled in half a pint of milk. Beat the yolk of i egg very light and stir into the milk. Flavor with vanilla, and when cold add the other half of the COOKING DIVISION. 333 milk and the white of the Ggg beaten to a stiff froth and stirred in quickly. Spread this between the cakes, and ice it with the white of i egg and 8 table-spoonfuls of fine sifted sugar, flavoring with lemon

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