This section is from the book "Mary Jane's Cook Book", by Mary Jane. Also available from Amazon: Mary Jane's Cook Book.
Milk, 1 1/2 cups. Sugar, 2-3 cup.
Grated chocolate, 2 tablespoons. Cornstarch, 1 teaspoon.
Eggs, 3.
Dissolve chocolate in milk in double boiler. Beat yolks of eggs and add sugar. Stir into hot milk. Blend cornstarch in a little cold milk and add. Use egg whites with powdered sugar for a frosting meringue. An Old New England Cook, Somerville.
Mashed sweet potatoes, 3 cups. Sugar, 1 cup. Melted butter, 1/2 cup. Baking powder, 1 teaspoon.
Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon. Molasses, 1 tablespoon. Eggs, 3. Milk, 1 cup.
Mix potato, sugar, baking powder, butter, spice, molasses, eggs, well beaten, and milk. The mixture should be thin enough to pour easily. Have deep pie tins lined with pastry, pour in custard mix-ture till pan is nearly full. Cook from 10 to 20 minutes in a medium oven. Can be kept several days before using.
Berries, 1 1/2 cups. Sugar, 2-3 cup.
Flour, 1 teaspoon. Butter.
Salt, a pinch.
Blueberries, blackberries, huckleberries, or raspberries may be used successfully. Bake in 2 crusts.
An Old New England Cook, Somerville.
Milk, 1 1/2 cups. Sugar, 1 cup. Butter, 1 tablespoon.
Flour, 1 tablespoon. Vanilla, 1 teaspoon. Eggs, 2.
Salt.
Cream butter, work in sugar and flour, add vanilla, well beaten eggs (saving 1 white for frosting), salt and pour over scalded milk. Bake as for custard pie. Frost with meringue.
A. M., Bridgewater.
Gooseberries, 1 1/2 pints.
Sugar, 1/2 pound.
Powdered sugar.
With a pair of scissors cut off the tops and tails of the berries. Pile them up high in a deep pie dish and pour over them the sugar. More sugar may be used if desired. Line the edge of the dish with a short crust, then put on cover and bake in good oven for 1/2 hour. Sift over powdered sugar and serve with cream or boiled custard.
Mrs. W. F. B., East Boston.
Currants, 1 cup. Sugar, 1 cup.
Cracker, 1. Butter.
Salt, a pinch.
Mash currants with sugar, add the cracker, rolled fine, butter size of a walnut, in bits, and salt. Bake 1/2 hour.
An Old New England Cook, Somerville.
Red currants, 1 1/2 pints.
Raspberries, 1/2 pint.
Sugar, 3 large tablespoons.
Line a deep pie plate with a good crust. Mix the currants, freed from stems, raspberries and sugar, put in crust and cover with rich crust. Brush the top with milk and bake until brown. Sift sugar over top and serve with cream. Should be eaten cold.
Mrs. W. F. B., East Boston.
Make a rich pie crust and fit it over the top of an inverted pie plate. Prick it with a fork in 3 or 4 places and bake till light brown. Turn onto a plate and when ready to serve fill with 1 quart of fresh strawberries, halved and sweetened. Spread over the top 1/2 cup of cream, which has been whipped, sweetened, and flavored with vanilla. Mrs. II. B. C, East Boston.
 
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