Plain Pastry

1 cup flour 1/3 cup lard.

1/2 teaspoon salt Ice water.

Sift flour and salt. Cut in shortening with two knives. Add just enough water to make a stiff dough. Roll out on floured board. (Be careful not to use too much flour).

Louise Nottingham, Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University.

Open Apple Pie

1 pie crust.

2 tablespoons flour 4 tablespoons sugar 3 - 4 apples.

1/2 cup sugar.

1 tablespoon butter.

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg.

1 teaspoon salt.

1/2 cup sugar.

1 tablespoon flour.

1 egg.

1/2 cup water.

Sprinkle two tablespoons of flour and four tablespoons of sugar over bottom crust. Fill with sliced apples. Sprinkle 1/2 cup sugar over these and dot butter over sugar. Add nutmeg and salt. Fill with a custard made of sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, egg and water. Bake till custard. Ethel Reed, Brook, Ind.

De Pauw University.

Caramel Nut Pie

Put two tablespoons of butter in a shallow vessel; let melt; pour into it 1/2 cup sugar. Cook until dark brown. Pour into the caramel 1 l/2 cups creamy milk. Let boil until caramel is dissolved in milk. Empty into double boiler.

Beat yolks of two eggs. Dissolve 1 1/2 tablespoons of cornstarch in a little cold milk. Add this and 1/4 cup of sugar to egg yolks. Beat all together; then pour into caramel mixture. Cook until thick. Remove from fire and add one teaspoonful vanilla. When cool add 1/2 cup English walnut meats and pour into baked pie crust. Beat whites of two eggs and add two tablespoons sugar. Spread over top of pie and bake in moderate oven until light brown.

Thorborg Swenson, Rockford, Ill. University of Wisconsin.

Mock Mince Meat

1 peck tomatoes - wash and grind in food chopper.

2 pounds raisins - whole.

6 pounds brown sugar 1 pint vinegar.

Cook 2 1/2 hours, then add one pound dates, a little cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, salt.

Add chopped apple either now or when using mince meat.

Rhoda Weingartner, University of Wisconsin.

Pineapple Pie

1/2 cup sugar.

1/8 teaspoon salt.

2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 1/2 cups hot milk.

Cook in double boiler until thick. Pour onto two egg yolks; return to boiler and cook until eggs thicken. Cool and add one cup crushed pineapple. Pour in baked crust. Cover with meringue and brown in hot oven. Evelyn Leander, Corvallis, Ore.

Oregon Agricultural College.

Orange Pie Filling

1 cup sugar.

1/4, teaspoon salt.

Juice 1/2 lemon.

1/3 cup flour.

Grated rind 1 orange.

2 tablespoons butter.

3 egg yolks.

Mix sugar and flour, salt and grated rind; add fruit juice, and cook in double boiler ten minutes, stirring until thickened, and afterward occasionally. Add butter and egg yolks beaten light. Cook two minutes and cool. Put in crust that has been baked and cover with meringue. Place in hot oven long enough to brown meringue.

Helen Heggie, Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University.