1800's foods Daily Calendar Recipes admin 6 years agoNovember 23, 2021

January 18th, 1875 Cream Pie and Crust

Burlington Vermont 1875

January 18th 1875

Cream Pie Crust

3 eggs

1 cup sugar

1 ½ cup flour

1 ½ cup cold water

½ teaspoon cream tarter

½ teaspoon soda

This is a little difficult to interpret this recipe, the measurements for the flour and water seem to be the same, 1 ½ cup, but if you use this much water it will be very mushy and you will not be able to roll it out as a pie crust.

Maybe redact it for yourself, I have not tried this recipe, it could work. But my thought is to just add the water a ½ teaspoon at a time until you can just make a ball of dough. Pie crusts are best if not handled too much. But adding that much leavening to a crust is unusual as well; I think this will have to be an experiment to see how it all actually goes together.

Cream for pie

1 pint milk

2 eggs

Tablespoon flour

1 cup sugar

Lemon.