1 tsp. cinnamon
2 cups milk
Pastry for 9 inch crust and strips for top
Combine apple butter, beaten eggs, sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon and
mix well. Add the milk gradually to the mixture and blend well. Pour
into unbaked pie shell. Top with "lattice" made from 1/2 inch wide
strips of crust. Bake at 350-f, 35 minutes.
CURRANT _and_ RED RASPBERRY PIE
Fill an unbaked pie shell with currants and red raspberries. Sugar
generously. Add the top crust and bake for 30 minutes. This is unusual
and very delicious.
SCHNITZ PIE (Dried apples)
1 lb. of schnitz
1 orange, rind and juice
2 cups sugar
2 tblsp. cinnamon
prepared pie crust
Cover Schnitz with water and soak over night. Add orange rind and juice
and more water if necessary. Boil until soft, then put through colander
and add sugar and cinnamon. Pour into pastry lined shell, dot with
butter, cover with top crust or lattice strips. Bake in hot oven (450-f)
for 10 minutes. Reduce to 350-f bake 30 minutes.
RHUBARB PIE
3 cups diced rhubarb
1-1/2 cups sugar
3 tblsp. flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tblsp. lemon juice
2 eggs, separated
1 9-inch pie shell
Cut rhubarb into small pieces and arrange in an unbaked pie shell.
Combine the sugar and flour, add egg yolks and lemon juice. Stir into a
smooth paste. Pour this mixture over rhubarb. Cover with meringue made
from the egg white. Bake in a hot oven (425-f) for 10 minutes, then
reduce heat to (325-f) and bake for 30 minutes.
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH
Desserts
STEAMED FRUIT PUDDING
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped suet
1 cup molasses
1 cup milk
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
1/4 cup boiling water
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. allspice
1/2 tsp. cloves
flour
Combine and mix all the ingredients with flour enough to make a stiff
batter; then add the soda dissolved in boiling water. Put into a well
greased mould, cover tightly and steam for 3 hours. Serve with a sauce
made from:
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 egg, beaten
Beat all together until creamy and pour over the pudding when serving.
APPLE _or_ PEACH STRUDEL
Into bottom of a buttered baking dish put thick layers of apples (or
peaches). Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon mixed. Dot with lumps of
butter. Into a mixing bowl sift:
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
Into this break 1 egg. Mix until crumbly. Put over apples (pea
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