a small opening in center, and bake in a medium hot
oven; in the meantime stew 1 cup cherries in a little water till
tender; strain them, return the liquid to saucepan and boil 5
minutes; add to 1 cup liquid 1 cup sugar and continue the boiling
for 5 minutes; remove from fire, add a little brandy or wine and
pour this syrup, when pie is done, through a funnel into the pie.
Another way is:--Do not stone the cherries; after the plate is lined
with crust fill it full with cherries, dust over some flour,
sprinkle them with sugar and add 3 tablespoonfuls water to each pie;
cover with crust and bake till done. Another way is:--Boil 1/2 cup
currant juice with 1/2 cup sugar for 5 minutes and when the pie (made
like the first one) is done pour the currant syrup through a small
funnel into the pie. This is an excellent way to give cherries which
have not much flavor a nice taste.

681. +Banana Pie.+-- 4 large bananas, 1 cup milk, 4 eggs, 1/2 cup
sugar, 1/2 tablespoonful melted butter and 1 teaspoonful essence of
vanilla; remove the skins and press the bananas through a sieve; mix
them with the 4 yolks, sugar, milk, melted butter and vanilla; line
a deep pie plate with crust, ornament the edge, lay in a piece of
buttered brown paper, fill the plate with dry peas or with pieces of
stale bread and bake till done; remove it from oven, free the plate
from paper and peas, return the plate for a few minutes to oven
again, fill in the banana mixture and bake till done; in the
meantime beat the whites to a stiff froth and add 1 tablespoonful
powdered sugar; draw the pie to front of oven, spread over the
meringue, let it remain for a few minutes longer in oven, take it
out, set it in a cool place and serve ice cold.

682. +Pineapple Pie.+-- Pare 1 ripe pineapple, remove the eyes and
hard core in center and chop it fine; line a deep pie plate with
fine pie crust, fill it with the finely chopped pineapple, sprinkle
over 1 small cup sugar and dust a little flour over; cover the pie
with crust and bake a light brown and well done; put the eyes and
cores of the pineapple with 6 greening apples cut into pieces in a
saucepan, nearly cover them with water and boil till tender; then
strain through a bag, return the liquid to saucepan and boil 20
minutes; then add for 1 cup liquid 1 cup sugar, boil 5 minutes and
fill the jelly into tumblers. This makes an excellent pineapple
jelly.

683. +Pineapple Pie (with Meringue).+-- 1 large, ripe pineapple