This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
4 cups stewed squash or pumpkin - a quart.
1/2 cup sugar.
1/4 cup butter.
2 large basting spoons of flour and water to thicken it.
1 teaspoon cinnamon.
1 teaspoon ground ginger.
Melt the butter, stir all together. Fill two or three pies and bake a long time. Cost; a quart pumpkin 8, sugar 2, butter 3, spice 1; 14 cents, crust 2 cents each pie.
 
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