How To Make Plain Pastry

1 1/2 cups pastry flour

1/2 cup lard

1 teaspoon salt

Ice water

Cut the lard into the flour and salt with a silver knife. Do not cut the lard into pieces smaller than a pea. Add two or three tablespoons ice water or just enough to make the dough stick together. (The dryest pie crust is the best.) Roll as quickly as possible and in as cool a place as possible the desired thickness. Place pastry in a hot oven at first and then reduce the heat. This makes a two-crust pie. For one crust only use one cup flour, one-third cup lard and two-thirds teaspoon salt.

How To Make Chess Pie

1 cup sultana raisins

1/2 cup melted butter

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1/2 cup cream

3 egg yolks

3 egg whites for meringue

Juice of 1/2 lemon

1/4 teaspoon salt

Mix the raisins, butter, sugar, nuts, lemon juice, salt, cream and egg yolks well beaten. Place in a crust of plain pastry and place in a hot oven. Reduce the heat after the first eight minutes. After twenty minutes remove the pie from the oven and place a meringue made of the egg whites, one-fourth teaspoon salt and two tablespoons powdered sugar on the pie. Return to oven and bake slowly until meringue is done.

How To Make Date Nut Pudding

1 scant cup sugar

1 tablespoon flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

3 eggs

1 pound dates

1 pound nuts in the shell

1 teaspoon vanilla

Sift the sugar, flour, baking powder and salt. Add the beaten eggs. Add dates which have been stoned and cut in quarters, and the nuts broken in pieces. Add the flavoring. Bake slowly for thirty-five minutes. Serve with whipped cream. This may be made very thin, cut in strips to serve with afternoon tea.

How To Make Raisin Pie

1 cup cold water

1 cup sugar

1 tablespoon corn starch

Rind and juice of 1 lemon

1 cup raisins

1/4 teaspoon salt

Mix cornstarch, sugar and salt. Add the water and lemon and raisins to this. Cook all together until the cornstarch thickens. Place in a baked shell and cover with a meringue or between a two-crust pie and bake in a hot oven.

How To Make Butter Scotch Pie

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup milk

2 teaspoons vanilla

3 tablespoons flour

3 tablespoons butter

2 egg yolks

1/4 teaspoon salt

Mix the flour with the brown sugar and add the scalded milk to this. Cook in double boiler for twenty minutes. Add the egg yolks and cook until they thicken. Add butter and vanilla. Place in a baked pie shell and place a meringue on it. Brown slowly. This is easier to handle if made in individual pies or tarts.

How To Make Caramel Custard

4 cups scalded milk

5 eggs

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup sugar

Put one-half the sugar in a skillet, stir constantly until it is melted. Let it burn, add one-half cup hot water, boil to a thick syrup. Add the remaining sugar and the salt to the eggs. Add the scalded milk slowly, and then the vanilla and two teaspoons of the caramel syrup. Strain. Bake in ramekins set in hot water in a slow oven until it will not stick to a silver knife. Never let the water in the baking pan boil as this will make a watery custard.