Took 8 cups flour (2 pounds, 7 cents.) 2 cups butter (1 pound, 19 cents.)

Rubbed together dry and wetted with two cups water (No. 20.)

Lined three pie pans, dinner plate size, cut up into them raw rhubarb in very small pieces (4 cents) and spread over it a pound of sugar (8 cents). Covered with very thin crust, cut off by pressing the paste against edge of plate, baked light colored. One-third the paste left over. Cut pies in five each; 2 cents each plate.