This section is from the book "Neighborhood Cook Book", by Circle No. 5, Women's Union, Hemenway Methodist Church. Also available from Amazon: Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking.
(Serves 10 people.)
3 eggs well-beaten, 1 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cup flour, 2 tbsp. water, 1 heaping tsp. baking powder.
Bake in tins, split while warm and fill with the following :
1 cup milk, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 tbsp. cornstarch dissolved in a little milk, small piece of butter. Cook until thick and put between layers.
- Mr. Jos. Moore, Chef.
1 large cup cranberries, 3/4 cup raisins, 1 cup sugar, 1 tl)sp. flour, 1/2 cup boiling water, pinch of salt, 1 dessert spoon vanilla. Cut up the cranberries and raisins, mix with sugar and flour, and pour boiling water over all. Add vanilla. - Mrs. las. C. Carter.
Beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth. Add 2 tbsp. of sugar. Spread over pie and brown.
- Mrs. S. N. Gustafson.
1 cup molasses, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tbsp. butter boiled until it thickens, 2 eggs well beaten. Pour syrup on eggs beating vigorously and continually. Flavor. Carefully pour in crust and bake. - Mrs. C. H. Hathaway.
1/2 cup sugar, 4 bananas put through ricer. Beat together 1/2 hour. When time to serve, pour into a pastry shell and cover top with whipped cream. Is also very good served with whipped cream without the pastry shell. - Mrs. G. W. Heavener.
1 cup squash, 3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1/3 tsp. ginger, 1/2 tsp. salt. 1 tsp. cinnamon, butter size of a small egg, 1 cup milk. Beat the eggs, mix with other ingredients, and bake slowly. - Mrs. A. A. Kendall.
Bake a bottom crust. Sugar berries and keep on ice for a short time. Whip 1/2 pt. cream until thick. Add 2 tbsp. sugar. Add berries to crust and spread cream over top and keep cold until ready to serve.
- Mrs.U. G. Buck.
1 pint milk, 1 cup sugar, 1 heaping tbsp. flour, 4 eggs, 1 tsp. almond extract, 1 lb. almonds (blanched, roasted and browned), 1 cup thick cream, 10 candied cherries. Put milk in double boiler and when it gets hot, add to it one-half the sugar mixed with the flour. Beat the eggs and add to the rest of the sugar. Cook the milk mixture for 10 minutes, then add the egg mixture, stirring constantly. When quite thick, remove from fire and let cool. Then add almond extract and almonds, reserving 2 tbsp. Let stand until cold and fill pastry shell. Whip cream until very stiff and cover pie. Sprinkle with almonds, and with a pastry tube fancy border around the edges. Use cherries around the border. Kep in cool place until ready to serve.
- Mrs. E. W. Keast.
1 cup syrup, 1 tbsp. sugar, 2 eggs and a small piece of butter.
Beat eggs well, mix in syrup, sugar and butter. Bake in bottom crust. Top with white of eggs and sugar.
- Mrs. W. F. Struebing.
 
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