This section is from the book "Tested And Tried Recipes Of Azusa And Vicinity Housekeepers", by The Azusa Woman's Club. Also available from Amazon: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl.
Juice and grated rind of 2 oranges, 4 eggs. 4 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon butter. Cream butter and sugar. Add the beaten yolks of eggs, then the orange. Lastly beat in half the whites, reserving half to put on top while baking.
- Mrs. Otanus Wright.
One cup seeded raisins and 2 cups of cranberries cut in pieces. Stew together for 15 minutes or longer, then add 2 cups white sugar. Thicken with 2 tablespoons of flour. Add "butter size of walnut. This will make 2 large or 3 small pies.
- Mrs. T. F. Heth.
Two large tablespoons corn starch dissolved in a little cold water, then stirred in a cup of boiling water. Then add 2 eggs beaten, 2-3 cups sugar, 1 lemon grated and juice of 1½ lemons, piece of butter the size of a walnut. Bake with one crust. White of 1 egg beaten for top, with tablespoon sugar.
- Mrs. Robt. E. Smith.
Six pounds finely minced meat (neck piece), 8 pounds-apples, 1 pound suet, 2 pounds raisins. 2 pounds sugar, 1 ounce mace, 1 ounce nutmeg, 1 ounce cinnamon and allspice, ½ ounce cloves, salt and pepper to season meat, 2 quarts of sweet cider or sweetened vinegar and water to moisten mince meat. Bake in puff paste crust. - Mrs. S. E. McAfee.
Mrs. J. R. Eldred's mother.
One pint water, 2-3 pint sugar, ½ pint vinegar (not too-strong). 5 large soda crackers, ¼ pound raisins, cinnamon, cloves and allspice to suit taste, 2 large apples cut fine, piece of buffer the size of a walnut. Boil all 15 minutes.- Mrs. C. C. Casey.
Makes 5 gallons. 10 pounds neck of beef (cook until tender), 2 pounds suet, 4 pounds raisins, 4 pounds currants, 2 pounds citron, ½ box apples (sour), ½ gallon of syrup, 4 pounds of brown sugar, ½ gallon vinegar, 1 bottle brandy, ¼ pound each of cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and four ground nutmegs. Chop meat, apples, suet and citron fine, and cook all together. - Mrs. Robt. F. Thaxter.
One bowl of meat chopped fine, 1 bowl of apples chopped fine, ½ bowl of suet chopped fine (or butter is better still), 1 bowl of brown sugar, 1 bowl of molasses, 1 bowl of raisins, seeded, ½ bowl of currants, 1 bowl of cider or juice from sweet pickles, cinnamon, cloves and allspice to suit taste. Mix and boil. - Mrs. L. P. Mattatall.
This will make 2 large pies. Yolks of four eggs, well beaten, juice and grated rind of 2 lemons, juice of 2 oranges, 2 cups of sugar, 2 cups of bread crumbs and 2 tablespoonfuls of flour, 2 cups boiling water. Pour boiling water over bread crumbs, and the juice of the lemons and oranges and the grated rind of lemon, also the yolks of eggs and the sugar. Cook the mixture slowly for a few minutes. Thicken with the flour stirred to a paste. When baked, coyer with the whites of eggs beaten stiff, to which a little sugar has been added. Return to oven and brown slightly. - Mrs. Mace.
To 1 quart of flour add small teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon baking powder, and 1-3 as much good leaf lard as flour. Mix with cold water until the crust does not stick to the hands. If not enough water is used the crust will be stiff and break while rolling out. - Mrs. Robt. E. Smith..
These Recipes Call for:
Nutmeg
Ginger
Mace
Thyme
Cream of tartar
Cinnamon
Cloves
Allspice
Mustard seed
Caraway seed
Celery seed
Sase
Peppermint extract
Almond extract
Wintergreen extract
Strawberry extract
Rose extract
Vanilla extract
Lemon extract
Cocoa
Lard or Cottolene
Gelatine
Chocolate
Olive oil
Powdered sugar
Brown sugar
Walnuts
Citron
Currants
Raisins
Apples
Vinegar
Salt
Sugar
Syrup
Butter
Eggs
Flour
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