This section is from the book "Every-Day Dishes And Every-Day Work", by E. E. Kellogg. Also available from Amazon: Larousse Gastronomique.
Into one pint of canned or fresh grape juice, when boiling, stir two tablespoonfuls of corn-starch or maizena braided with a little water, and cook for five minutes. Sweeten to taste, and fill a baked crust.
Prepare according to directions given on page 22.
Steep one-half cup of cocoanut in a pint of milk for one-half hour. Strain out the cocoanut, and add sufficient fresh milk to make a pint. Allow it to become cold, then add a quarter of a cup of sugar and two well-beaten eggs. Bake with an under crust only. When done, the top may be covered with a meringue, if desired.
For one pie, beat together one egg, one-half cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, and two cups of rich milk. Bake in one crust.
Stew a quart of cranberries until broken, in a pint of boiling water. Rub through a colander to remove the skins, add two cups of sugar and one-half cup of sifted flour. Bake with an under crust only.
Stew good dried apples till perfectly tender in as small a quantity of water as possible. When done, rub through a colander; they should be about the consistency of fruit jam; if not, a little flour may be added. Sweeten to taste, fill under crusts with the mixture, and bake. If lemon flavor is liked, a few pieces of the yellow rind may be added to the apples a little while before they are tender. If the apples are especially tasteless, lemon juice or some sour-apple jelly should be added after rubbing through the colander. The crusts may first be baked, and filled with the mixture when needed; in which case the sauce should be simmered lightly till of the desired consistency. The top may be ornamented with strips or rings of crust.
Rub a quart of well-stewed dried apples through a colander, add a cupful of steamed raisins, sugar to sweeten, and bake with two crusts. This is sufficient for two pies.
Stew together one-third dried apricots and two-thirds dried apples or peaches. When soft, rub through a colander, add sugar to sweeten, and if very juicy, stew again until the juice is mostly evaporated; then beat until light, and bake in a granola crust.
Cook one-fourth cup of farina in a double boiler for an hour in three cups of rich milk. Allow it to become cool, then add one-half cup of sugar, the yolks of two eggs, and a little grated lemon rind. Bake with an under crust only. Meringue the top with the white of the egg beaten to a stiff froth with one tablespoonful of sugar, and a little grated lemon rind for flavoring. The quantity given is sufficient for two small pies.
 
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