Washington Pie

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3 cups sifted flour
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon cream tartar
• 1 tablespoon corn starch
• 1/2 pint milk
• yolk of 1 egg
• white of 1 egg

Method

1. 1

   For the crust, mix 2 cups sugar, 0.5 cup butter, 3 cups sifted flour, 4 eggs, and 0.5 teaspoon cream tartar.

2. 2

   For the filling, boil 1 tablespoon cornstarch in 0.5 pint milk, beat yolk of 1 egg and stir into the milk, flavor with vanilla, and when cold, add the other half of the milk and the beaten egg white.

3. 3

   Spread this between the cakes and frost with the beaten egg white and 8 tablespoons of finely sifted sugar, flavored with lemon.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 240. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WASHINGTON PIE — For the crust, use 2 cups, sugar, ^ cup butter, 3 cups sifted flour, 4 eggs, ^ teaspoon cream tartar; for the filling, 1 tablespoon corn starch, boiled in -| pint milk; beat the yolk of 1 egg very liglit, and stir into the milk; flavor with vanilla, and, when cold, add the oDier half of the milk and the white of the egg, beaten to a stiff iVoth and stirred in quickly; spread this bolwoon the cakes, and ico il >vill\ the white of 1 egg

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