Pie Recipes. Part 5

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This section is from the book "Mary Jane's Cook Book", by Mary Jane. Also available from Amazon: Mary Jane's Cook Book.

Pie Recipes. Part 5

Mock Mince Pie

Crackers, 4. Sugar, 1 cup. Molasses, 1 cup. Water, 1 cup. Cider, 1 cup.

Chopped raisins, 1 cup. Butter, 2-3 cup. Eggs, 2. Mixed spices. Citron, 1 cup.

Mix all ingredients, stirring in well beaten eggs last. Bake in 2 crusts. C. B. A., Newton.

Apricot Pie

Dried apricots, 1 cup. Water, 2 cups. Sugar, 1/2 cup.

Flour.

Butter.

Nutmeg.

Wash apricots and soak over night in water. In the morning put on stove with same water in which they were soaked. Cook slowly till soft, then add sugar and cook a few minutes more. Set away to cool. Line a deep plate with crust, lay in the apricots regularly, pour on the juice with a sprinkling of flour, dots of butter and a pinch of nutmeg if the flavor is desired. Cover with a rich top crust, brush over with milk and bake about 3/4 of an hour.

Mrs. H. B. C, East Boston.

Dried Peach Pie

Dried peaches, 2 cups. Sugar, 1 cup.

Salt, a pinch.

Water 2 tablespoons.

Butter, 1 tablespoon.

Soak peaches over night, then cook until soft without sugar and with very little water. Fill pie with peaches cut in pieces, pour over sugar, salt and water, dot with bits of butter and put on top crust or bars of pastry. Egleston Square.

Chocolate Cream Pie

Milk, 1 large cup. Cornstarch, 1 dessertspoon. Sugar, 2 dessertspoons. Egg, 1.

Unsweetened chocolate, 1/2

square. Whipped cream. Pastry.

Line a small pie plate with pastry and bake. Heat the milk, blend the cornstarch and sugar in the beaten egg and add to the milk. Cook until thick, then stir in the chocolate previously melted, pour into crust and let cool. Just before serving cover with whipped cream.

Orange Pie

Orange, 1. Sugar, 1 cup. Eggs, 3.

Flour, 2 tablespoons. Milk, 1 large cup. Pastry.

Extract the juice of the orange, which should be a large one, and grate the rind. To this add the sugar, the beaten yolks of the eggs, the flour blended with a little of the cold milk and lastly the rest of the milk. Bake in one crust. Frost with a meringue made of the egg whites, sugar and orange flavoring, and return to the oven to brown.

Cranberry Pie

Cranberries, 2 cups.

Water, 1/2 cup.

Sugar, 1 cup,

Stew all together for 10 minutes and bake in 2 rich crusts in rather a quick oven.

Prune Pie

Prunes, 1/2 pound. Sugar, 1/2 small cup.

Lemon juice, 1 tablespoon. Butter, 1 1/2 teaspoons.

Flour, 1 tablespoon.

Wash prunes and soak in cold water to cover over night, cook in same water till soft, remove stones and cut prunes in quarters. Mix with sugar, lemon juice and liquor in which prunes were cooked, which should be reduced to 1 1/2 tablespoons. Line pie plate with crust, cover with prune mixture, dot over with butter and dredge with flour. Put on upper crust and bake in moderate oven.