Ingredients:
- 1 cup shortening (lard and butter mixed)
- 3 cups flour
- a little salt
- ice water
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 quart milk
- a little salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
Preparation:
PASTRY.--Take one cup shortening (lard and butter mixed) ; three cups of flour, a little salt; sift the flour; add the salt, and rub in the shortening. Use enough ice water to hold all together, handling as little as possible. Roll from you. One-third the quantity given is enough for one pie.
FILLING.--Yolks of four eggs, one quart of milk, a little salt, and one-half cup of sugar. Bake with under crust only. Flavor to taste.
FLORENCE ECKHART.
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.
