Plain Pie Crust

Flour, 1 quart

Salt, 1 teaspoon.

Baking powder, 1 teaspoon.

Lard, 3 tablespoons. Butter, 1 tablespoon. Cold water.

Sift dry ingredients, cut in lard until well mixed, then add cold water, a little at a time, stirring and cutting with a knife till all is wet but not soft. Set on ice for 1 hour, then roll out with as few quick strokes as possible, dot over with the butter cut in tiny pieces, fold up and roll out again. Makes top and bottom crust for 2 pies.

Hot Water Pie Crust

Flour, 3 cups. Shortening, 1 cup.

Boiling water, 1/2 cup. Salt, 1 teaspoon.

Baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon.

Put shortening (any kind may be used) into a bowl and over it pour the boiling water. Beat with a fork until creamy. Then sift in the flour, salt and baking powder. Stir well together and roll out. This amount makes 2 pies.

Old-Fashioned Pumpkin Pie

Milk, 1 quart.

Sifted pumpkin, 1 pint.

Eggs, 4. Molasses, 1/2 cup.

Ginger and allspice.

Bake in one crust.

English Pumpkin Pie

Sifted pumpkin, 1 quart.

Eggs, 6.

Butter, 1/4 pound.

Milk, 1/2 pint.

Sugar, 3/4 pound.

French brandy. 1 tablespoon.

Madeira or sherry, 1 gill.

Cut the pumpkin into large pieces, peel and put into cold water over a slow fire. Simmer without boiling till tender, then drain, put through a colander and afterwards through coarse muslin, squeezing out every drop of water. Then measure and add in-gredients in order given, beating eggs till light and thick and cream-ing butter and sugar till soft before adding. When .well mixed, bake in puff paste. A. W., Medford.

Mince Pie

Boiled chopped beef, 2 quarts. Chopped apples, 6 quarts. Chopped citron, 1 pound. Chopped raisins, 4 pounds. Whole seedless raisins, 2

pounds. Currants, 2 pounds. Brown sugar, 3 quarts.

White sugar, 2 quarts. Meat liquor, 2 quarts. Salt, 10 teaspoons. Cinnamon, 9 teaspoons. Clove, 3 teaspoons. Lemons, 8. Boiled cider, 1 cup. Apple jelly, 3 glasses.

Grape jelly, 3 glasses.

Mix all well together using juice of the lemons and grated rind of two. Let boil very slowly till whole raisins are cooked. Makes 12 quart jars. When pies are filled, dot with bits of butter, sprinkle over with sugar and a bit of nutmeg and put on top crust.

H. M. B., Allston.

Simple Mincemeat

Chopped beef, 2 quarts.

Chopped suet, 1 cup.

Chopped apple, 4 1/2 quarts.

Boiled cider.

Raisins.

Currants.

Salt.

Sugar.

Lemon juice.

Lemon peel.

Clove.

Cinnamon.

Nutmeg.

Mace.

Get beef from lower part of the round, boil until soft and chop fine, add suet and apples. Add remaining ingredients to suit your own taste, and mix quite soft with boiled cider, as boiling and keeping tend to dry it up. Vinegar and water may be used instead the boiled cider. Boil all together till raisins are away in sealed jars. Mrs. G. E. J., Brookline.