Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup sugar
- butter the size of an egg
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1 Tablespoon flour
- 1 pint milk
- nutmeg to taste
Preparation:
Three-fourths cup of sugar; butter the size of an egg, yolks of three eggs, one tablespoon of flour, one pint of milk; flavor with nutmeg. beat all well together; heat the custard to near boiling; fill pie and bake. Put white of eggs on top; sprinkle with sugar and brown in oven.
IVA FISH.
Recipes 1894 Style |Pies 1894 Style
Adapted from Recipes Tried and True, compiled by the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Presbyterian Church, Marion, Ohio, 1894, a source in the public domain.
The recipes in this collection are representative of cooking in America in the late 19th century, and the compilation of a cookbook shows the ways in which women were beginning to organize and act both within their traditional roles and outside of traditional expectations. The recipes are presented exactly as written in 1894, and may not conform to current nutritional or food preparation standards. Try at your own risk.
