"No soil upon earth is so dear to our eyes, As the soil we first stirred in terrestrial pies".

- Holmes.

Pie Paste

1/3 cup lard or other shortening 1 1/2 cups flour

3/4 teaspoonsful salt Cold water

Mix shortening and salt with the flour, and moister to a dough with the cold water.

Puff Paste

1 cup flour Scant cup butter

1 tablespobnful lard Cold, or ice water

Work lard into the flour, and moisten dough with ice water. Put out on a board, and roll out, using as little flour as possible. Dot paste with small pieces of butter, sprinkle with flour and fold both ways so it will make 4 layers. Roll out. and repeat until butter is used. Roll, shape, chill and bake in a hot oven.

Buttermilk Pie

1 cup buttermilk

1/4 cup sugar

1 cup chopped dates

Bake in two crusts.

1 tablespoonful of flour 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Mrs. S. S. Metzleb,

Denver, Colorado.

Christmas Pie

3 large lemons

2 dozen apples

2 pounds stoned raisins

1 pound stoned dates

1 pound currants

4 pounds brown sugar

1 ounce each of candied orange, lemon and citron peel 1 small pot marmalade

One cup means 1/2 pint. Cup, tablespoon and teaspoon all mean level measurements.

1 1/2 pounds suet 1 pint boiled cider

Bake like mince pieces. Mrs. J. E. Masten,

La Colle, Quebec, Canada.

Combination Pie

2 cups chopped dates 1 cup raw apples

1 egg

1/4 cup sugar 1 1/2 cups milk

Put dates and apples through a meat chopper, add the rest of the ingredients, and bake in one crust with twisted straps across the top. K. Hayward,

Thermal, Calif.

Cottage Cheese Pie

One-half cup finely cut dates soaked in 1 cup milk for about two hours.

One cup very fine and smooth cottage cheese, and add to this 2 well beaten eggs.

Add gradually 1/4 cup sugar, then add milk and dates; 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1 tablespoon lemon juice.

Bake in one crust. (If dates are not used 1/2 cup sugar will be necessary.) Mrs. V. E. Metzler.

Date Cream Pie

4 tablespoons Crisco 4 tablespoons flour % teaspoon salt 2 cups milk

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup dates stoned and cut

2 eggs well beaten Plain pastry

Melt Crisco and in it cook flour and salt till frothy; add milk, and stir till boiling; add sugar and dates, and stir till dates are softened a little. Beat in the eggs, and turn in a pie plate lined with pastry.

Bake till crust is brown and custard set.

Janet McKenzie Hill.

Date And Apple Pie

Enough paste for upper and lower crust.

Fill pie pan nearly full of nice juicy apples, sliced.

Sprinkle with a little sugar and a very little flour.

On top of this place a layer of stoned dates, and put on top cover. Bake in a moderate oven.

Mrs. G. Shope, Coachella, Calif.

Date And Nut Pie

1 cup ground dates 1/3 cup nut meats 1/3 cup sugar 1 cup of milk

2 cups water

Yolks of 3 eggs

Whites of eggs for frosting

4 tablespoons cornstarch

Grind dates and nuts, add to milk and water, and heat, add sugar, and, when all is mixed, stir in the cornstarch which has been made smooth with a little milk. Add yolks of eggs, cook a little longer, then put in previously baked crusts. Makes two large pies.

Mbs. W. G. Savage,

Coachella, Calif.

Date Pie (No Sugar)

One pound dates, stoned, and cut in small pieces. Soak over night, or for several hours in 1 pint thin sweet cream. In the morning, add 1 whole egg and yolks of two more, reserving remaining whites for frosting. Bake in one crust,

This amount makes one very large pie, or two moderate sized ones. Mrs. Sparling,

Denver, Colorado.

Date Pie II (No Sugar)

1 pint of milk

2 eggs

A pinch of salt

3/4 cup stoned dates 1/4 tea spoonful nutmeg

Cook milk and dates in a double boiler till soft. Rub through a colander, add eggs and salt. Bake in one crust.

Date Strips Use any good pie paste or puff paste, and roll as you would for pie crust. Cut in squares or strips and brush over lightly with the unbeaten white of an egg. Put on a baking sheet, and sprinkle each with ground nuts and dates mixed.

This is a good way to use left over pie crust.

Sour Cream Pie

1 cup sour cream 1 cup sugar 1 cup dates

1 teaspoon vinegar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon cloves

Line a pan with crust, bake a little, add filling, and bake slowly till filling is set. Mrs. Fred Maison,

Coachella, Calif.

Sweet Cream Pie

Make and bake a crust and set away to cool.

One cup whipping cream; 2 teaspoons sugar; 1/2 cup finely ground dates (do not pack down to measure.) Flavoring to taste.

Whip cream until stiff, then add dates, sugar and flavoring.

When crust is cool, fill with the cream, and set in a cool place until used. Must be eaten same day it is made.

Mrs. A. F. Decker Crested Butte, Colorado