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, ½ cup sugar and 2 tbs. of corn starch.  Heat until smooth and then stir into the got milk.  Cook until thick and then add the beaten whites, empty into the shell and put a meringue on top and brown in oven or spread with whipped cream over top with crumbs. 

Lb. = pound; qt. = quart; tbs. = tablespoons; pt. = pint

DAILY RECIPES BY CALENDAR

As an ongoing feature here, I will add to this each day the recipes out of several books I have that are dated or from calendar books

I have three right off the bat that are calendars, one from 1875, one from the early 1900’s and one from the 1930’s to 40’s. 

A small leather covered calendar book from Burlington Vermont dated 1875.  It has all kinds of lovely handwritten dessert recipes; the front of the book has an overview of each month and a predictive weather chart, the difference of tie between Boston and New York, the value of gold and silver at the time and other interesting things like rates of postage. 

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