Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 May 28th 1912 Graham Cracker Pie Roll 15 graham crackers and 1 tbs. Of sugar and ½ cup melted butter. Empty into an ordinary pie plate and with your hands press into shape of pastry shell. Make a custard by heating 1 pt. of milk, make a thickening of 2 egg yolks, […]
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Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 May 13th 1912 Apple Custard Bake crust first, cook the apples but not mushy, drain and put into the baked shell. Custard 1 egg 1 ½ cups of milk 2 tablespoons corn starch Sugar to taste. Pour over the apples, Make a meringue of the white of egg. Brown in the oven. […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 29th 1875 Banbury Pies 1 lemon 2 eggs 2 cups sugar ½ lbs. raisins chopped Grate lemon peel make rich crust cut small size fill with mixture. Bake in dripping pan. Edith Thomason Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 29th 1912 Aunt Hattie’s Peach Luscious Mrs. Lichly Batter ¼ cup sugar 2 eggs […]
This March 14th is National pie day and I thought this would be a good time to write all about this lovely dessert. With further research, it seems that every August 15th is Lemon Meringue Pie Day, I did not know this until studying for this posting. I may repeat it in August and just […]
Burlington Vermont 1875 March 14th 1875 Frosting White of one egg 1 teaspoon starch 9 heaping teaspoons pulverized sugar Lemon juice to whiten Avondale Pennsylvania 1912 March 14th 1912 Ice Cream Cookies Mrs. A.S. Moyer ½ cup granulated sugar ½ cup lard and butter 1 egg not beaten ¾ cup flour – bread flour or […]
This is from a large lot of notebooks filled with handwritten recipes from 1940’s through 1950’s. Several are in shorthand and it includes a lot of life lessons and advice. These are from Columbus, Wisconsin, written by a Mrs. Corinne Christians. She has all kinds of Holiday special recipes and notes as well as decoration […]
A Cranberrie Meringue Pie This is a recipe found in a cook book I got from Morrison Illinois and written in the 1920’s and 30’s. I think the person who wrote this book was from Iowa; there are a lot of notations in the book with that state as a focus. The two cities listed […]