2 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs, separated
pinch of salt
1 lemon
1-1/2 cups milk
1 pie shell
Mix 2 tablespoons of flour with 1/2 cup sugar and a pinch of salt. Beat
2 egg yolks. Add the juice and grated rind of 1 lemon. Then add flour
and sugar continuing to beat. Stir in 1-1/2 cups milk and lastly fold in
2 egg whites beaten stiff, but not dry. Pour into unbaked pie shell.
Bake in hot oven, 425 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to moderate
350 degrees and bake 15 minutes more.
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH SOUR CHERRY PIE
1 qt. fresh sour cherries
1-1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup flour
pie crust
Mix flour and sugar and pitted cherries in a bowl. Fill unbaked pie
crust with the cherries. Put on a top pie crust, vented and bake in a
hot oven for 10 minutes. Reduce to moderate and bake for 20 minutes
more.
RIVEL (CRUMB) PIE
1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter and shortening mixed
Mix or "crumb" the above ingredients together with the hands to form
small lumps or rivels. Stew the rivels into a prepared pastry shell and
bake in a hot oven (400-f) for 30 minutes. Some spread 2 tblsps. of
molasses over it before baking.
SOUR CREAM RAISIN PIE
1 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup thick sour cream
3 eggs, slightly beaten
2 cups raisins, ground
1 unbaked pie shell
Combine all ingredients and turn into uncooked pie shell. Bake in hot,
450 degree oven 15 minutes, and then reduce to 350 degrees for 30
minutes.
CREAM RASPBERRY PIE
After lining a pie plate with pie crust, fill it with red raspberries.
Cover it with granulated sugar and with an upper crust, but rub the
edges of both upper and lower crusts with butter, so they will not stick
together. Then when pie is baked make a cream filling with:
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons sugar
vanilla
Cook this and when cool, add the whites of three eggs stiffly beaten.
Lift the upper crust of the pie and pour in this cream filling. Replace
the crust and sift with powdered sugar.
PASTRY HINT
When making a fruit pie, put lower crust in the oven 5 minutes and bake
while you are rolling out the top crust. Then put in filling and put on
the top crust. The undercrust will not be soggy.
MONTGOMERY PIE
For the syrup part:
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup water
2 tblsp. flour
1/2 lemon, juice and r
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