PIES AND PUFF PASTE
One cup flour; mix in water with knife until about the consistency of a soft pie dough; roll out; take suet and spread on with a knife; fold dough, but first sprinkle with flour. Roll again, and spread with butter quite thick; sprinkle flour, fold again and roll; then a fourth time roll, and spread with butter; then roll and put in dish.
Miss Ray Mayer
One-half pound butter, one-half pound flour. Blend half the butter with flour and mix thoroughly. Add one-half cup ice water. Dredge board with flour and roll out mixture. When rolled add remainder of butter in little pieces; fold and roll lightly and thin. Fold again and place on ice four hours.
R. L. S.
One cup fat or butter, four cups flour; work fat well into the flour until fine as sand; sprinkle over a teaspoonful salt, and bind together with ice water. Water should be poured in slowly and carefully, and in quantity only enough to work flour into a stiff paste. Handle lightly, and when mixed roll out to a one-fourth inch thickness.
Miss Ray Mayer
Apples should be peeled, sliced thin, and sugared to taste before being put in pie crust. Peaches should also be peeled and sugared. Raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, cherries, and currants should be dusted with flour as well as sweetened before being put in the crust. Gooseberries and cranberries should be stewed and sweetened before being put in the crust. To all fruits one to two tablespoonfuls of water should be added. In the fruit pie use fruit generously; that is, have plenty of the fruit filling, which wholesomely serves as an antidote to the rich pastry.
Mrs. O. Newman
Grate two good-sized oranges (yellow pulp, all except the leathery centre skin); add to this a cup of sugar, the yolks of three eggs, and three tablespoons of thick cream. Bake with only one crust. Make a meringue of the whites of the eggs beaten stiff with a little sugar; spread over the pie and set in a moderate oven for a few minutes.
Mrs. Israel
One heaping cup pumpkin strained, one cup milk, one egg, a pinch of salt, three-fourths teaspoon ginger, three tablespoons molasses, three-fourths cup brown sugar. Mix ingredients and pour on partially baked crust, then bake.
Miss Ray Mayer
Stir one heaping teaspoon of flour into one cup of sugar. Into the yolks of three eggs stir the juice and grated rind of a lemon; then add the lemon and sugar and half a cup of cold water. Put in the crust and bake. When baked cover with a meringue made of whites of the eggs beaten with a little sugar. After putting on the meringue let the pie stand a few minutes in a moderate oven.
Mrs. R. Kohn
One-half cup desiccated cocoanut soaked in one cupful of milk, two eggs, one small cupful of sugar, butter size of egg. This quantity makes enough for one small pie. Nice with a meringue on top.
Mrs. M. Cohen