Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-02
A Pair Of Pies

| Cus,ard PieeMix one scant cup of sifted
| pastry -four one-fourth teaspoon each
of salt and baking powder, and cut or chop
into it one rounding tablespoon each of but
| ter and lard. Mix into stiff ball with ice
| cold water. Toss out on Toured board, pat
| fat and one-half inch thick. roll out till
| one-half inch larger than the plate, which
should be deep, of granite thin earthen-
| ware, and Toured; not creased. Fold the
| extra paste under the edge and flute ii
| lightly. If the oven does not bake well on
| the bottom, bake the crust alone, just
enough to dry off the surface, and then add
| the custard.
| Custard.-Beat yolks of the eggs slightly
and whites till foamy, add three rounded
| tablespoons of sugar, one-fourth teaspoon
| of salt, and, if you like one-fourth tea
! spoon of nutmeg; mix well and pour on
three cups of new or unskimmed milk
scalded. Strain into a deep plate lined
| with the paste Bake slowly. When it
puffs. insert a clean knife blade, and If it
| comes out clean, the pie is done To have
| fine, foamy, brown crust on top of the
| custard instead of one that is yellow or
| blistered in patches, beat the whites of the
| eggs separately until foamy; not stiff, and
| mix them in just before the custard is
strained
| Lemon Pie.-Mix scant half teaspoon salt
with one cup pastry -four Chop in quar-
| Ter cup ldTQ ana mix WIN COlQ water INTO
| stiff dough- Pound 1t out fiat and half an
| inch thick. Put on butter in little dabs
roll up, and pat out again. Do this four
| times, using one-fourth cup in all. Pat
! 1t out again and lay on ice till chilled. Then
roll 1t an inch larger than the plate and
| cut off for a rim, put this strip on the edge,
first wetting the under paste.
Fillng.-Mix one heaped tablespoon corn
starch with one cup sugar, add one cup
boiling water, and boil five minutes. Add
one tablespoon butter. the grated rind of
half and juice of one lemon, and one well
beaten egg Turn into the crust and bake
till the crust is done. Cool and cover with
a meringue made with the whites of two
eggs, two tablespoons of powdered sugar.
and one teaspoon of lemon juice Pile it
on lightly and color delicate brown.
Raspberries-
Raspberry Pudding.-Sprinkle one cup
sugar over one quart raspberries, mash and
let them stand until the sugar is dissolved,
stirring and MASKING the mixture OCCASION
ally. Squeeze it through coarse cheese
cloth. There should be about one cup of
juice. Add boiling water to make one pint
of liquid, and put it on to boil. Wet three
tablespoons of corn starch in little cold
water and stir it into the boiling syrup Add
a saltspoon of salt and cook ten minutes,
stirring frequently. Beat the whites of
three eggs stiff. but not quite dry and
stir them into the thickened syrup Just be-
fore removing it from the fire. Turn II into
mold which has been wet in cold water
and set it away In a cold place Make a
custard sauce with the yoks Of the eggs
and serve with it,
Raspberry Pie.-Bake the two crusts with
! mock filling of old linen. When ready
to serve fill the undercrust with raspberries,
sprinkle tnickly with powdered sugar, add
about two tablespoons of thick cream, and
cover with the top crust or with meringue
Strawberries may be used in the same way
1nvxy aipht
of sugar and fruit. Pick over fruit care
fully and lay aside the largest and f1rmest
berries. Mash the remainder and put on
to boil for ten minutes, and then squeeze
them through a cheese cloth; put this liquid
on to boil with the sugar. remove the scum,
then put in the whole berries; let them boil
up once skim them out into Jars, filling
nearly full. Boil the syrup down until
there is about enough to fill the jars then
put the berries back and boil up once
more. Fill the jars and seal quickly.
Summer Fruits
Currant Catsup.-Ten pounds of currant
mashed and strained through a cloth Add
one quart vinegar, five pounds of granu-
lated sugar, three tablespoons of cinnamon,
two of allspice, and one each of cloves and
salt, and one-half teaspoon of red pepper
Boil 1t slowly one hour and put up in small
bottles
Currant Jely.-Bruise and squeeze the
currants until all the juice is out then
strain through a flannel and put the Juice
on to boil for fifteen minutes. Strain
again, measure for and allow the same
measure Of sugar. Bring the juice to boil
ing again and as soon as it begins to
thicken on the pan remove from the fire
ado the sugar quickly, stir well and remove
the scum, then turn at once into the glass
es. Currants should be gathered on a
clear, dry day and before they are fully
ripe
Baked Huckleoerry Dumplins-Mix one
| hllx
der and a half cup of sugar with one quart
of flour. Rub in one-third of a cup of but
ter. Wet ii with milk water sufficient
to make dough that will keep In shape
when dropped from a spoon. Wash and
dry one pint of berries and roll them In
-four. Mix them lightly into the dough
Drop the dough from the end of a large
spoon on to a well buttered dripping pan
Have the dumplings some distance apart
Bake about twenty minutes and serve with
snowdrift sauce.
Snowdrift Sauce.-Bol one cup milk and
thicken with one tablespoon flour worked
smooth In a little cold water Cook five
minutes; add one saltspoon of salt and set
away to cool; cream one heaping tablespoon
and one teaspoon of vanilla and beat into
the cool, thickened milk. Beat the white
Of one egg stiff and beat it gradually into
the sauce. TO be eaten with hot puddngs
Gooseberry Pie.-Remove the blossoms and
stems from one pint of green gooseberries
and stir slowly in porcelain kettle with
a small amount of water till they break
Sweeten to taste and bake between two
crusts. Half cup of seedess raisins with
pint of gooseberries gives delicious
favor
Hang
Your linen to dry, using two lines com.
paratively close and parallel for your ia
blecloths and sheets. Throw one selvage
side of your tablecloths over one line to-
ward the other, allowing it to hang down
about quarter of a yard, and being care
full to pin it short distance from the
ends. Take the opposite of your cloth and
throw 1t over the other line, facing the first
line and pin 1t In the same manner
This will form sort OF bag and will
prevent. to a considerable extent, the wild
blowing OF the tablecloth in windy weather.