Washington Pie

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 cups flour
• one-half pint of milk
• two tablespoons of sugar
• one spoon of flour
• one egg
• a pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Bake cake layers and prepare custard filling.

2. 2

   Spread filling between layers or top with jam or marmalade.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

e teaspoon baking powder, three eggs beaten separately. Bake it in two layer cakes. Whip a pint of very cold sweet cream until very smooth and stiff; first sweeten and flavor to taste, then spread it on one of the layers, placing the other on top. If one likes one can spread the top with cream and cocoanut. Should be eaten the same day. Lemon Tarts. 1 cup sugar 3 teaspoons flour 2 eggs . I pint boiling water I large lemon Make the tart shells of puff paste and fill with this mixture. Grate the rind, strain the juice of lemon, wet the flour with cold water, beat the eggs sep- arately, reserve one white for the top, stir sugar and all in the hot water and boil enough to cook the flour. Stir it constantly till clear and smooth. Huckleberry Pie. This has two crusts, top and bottom. Wash the berries and drain well; fill the crust pretty full; sprinkle two tablespoons of flour on top, bits of butter, a little salt; cover the berries with a cup of brown sugar and a sprinkle of water. Pinch the edges together and keep it just at the boiling point, or you will lose the syrup. Washington Pie. 1 cup sugar J^ cup butter 2 eggs I teaspoon baking powder y^ cup milk 2 cups flour Bake in two layer cakes and put between them the filling. Filling: Make a custard with one-half pint of The Queen Cook Book 143 ^ milk, two tablespoons of sugar, one spoon of flour, one egg, a pinch of salt

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