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Lemon Pie - 1894 Style

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From a 19th century recipe for lemon pie

Ingredients:

  • 2 lemons
  • 2 1/2 cups boiling water
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 Tablespoon butter
  • pastry crust

Preparation:

Grate the rind and squeeze the juice from two lemons; add two and one-half cups of boiling water, three cups of sugar, one-half cup of flour, the yolks of three eggs, and one tablespoon of butter; cook until thick and clear; put in pans prepared with pastry, and bake. Beat the whites of eggs with a little sugar; put over top, and brown lightly.

MRS. SUSIE B. DE WOLFE.

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.

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