The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-27
PHILADELPHIA PIES.
a Housewives Recipes for Delicious
Crusts and Filings.

Here are some recipes from the bud.
get of New York woman who is
famous among her friends for her
pastry. They are really PHILADELPHIA
recipes, for she was born and bred near
that city and brought her cooking lore
from there. Her piecrust is always a
success, it is delieiously tender. and
1T never disagrees with the eater. The
following rule will make double crusts
for five large pies:
Rich Piecrust.
Take eight large cooking spoonfuls of
Hour, five cooking spoonfuls of good
leaf lard and generous half teaspoon
full of salt. Mix thoroughly with the
hands, first cooling the hands with cold
water and then wiping them very dry.
After the ingredients are well blended
add little cold water to bind them
together very little will do. Roll
the crust out on a well-floured board,
handling as little as possible
This housewife doesn't believe in
butter for pieerust. She saws she has
never been able to make tender crust
with butter.
Green Tomato Pie.
Her green tomato pies are considered
a novelty by some New Workers. They
have just a suggestion of tartness that
is very appetizing. Here is the way
the preserves for the pies are made:
Take fifteen pounds of nice round green
tomatoes, cut out the cores and an
blemishes, then slice very thin. To
this amount of tomatoes take nine
pounds of graduated sugar, one-quarter
of pound of green ginger, washed,
peeled and cut very fine, and four
lemons, washed and cut in very thin
slices. All the seeds must he taken out
of the lemons.
Put this mixture over the fire with
one pint of water and cook thirty min
utes, or until the tomatoes are clear.
Take care they do not burn. Put
them up in tightly sealed glass cans I'M
til wanted.
Preserves made after this rule, but
with ripe tomatoes substituted for green
ones, are excellent for table use. If
the red tomatoes are used the skins
must be removed by scalding, for as
tomatoes ripen the skins grow tough.
Raisin Pie.
If the mineemeat has given out unex.
pectedlv and the family cry for some>
thing of the kind. a raisin pie makes
a satisfactory dessert and can be pre-
pared in a very little while. The in
gradients for the filing are: One lem
on, one egg, one cup of sugar. one table
spoonful of flour. one-half cup of seeded
raisins. Cover the raisins with one cup
of cold water and let them soak two
hours. Beat the egg until light, add
the sugar and beat again; then the
juice and grated rind of the lemon, and
then the -four Last, stir in the raisins
and the water in which they have been
soaking. and cook the mixture in a
double boiler until it thiekens. This
makes filing for one pie. Bake be-
tween two crusts.
Pineapple Pie.
To make two pies CRATE one medium
sized pineapple. Beat to a creamy
frOth piece of butter about as large
as a large walnut, add the yolks of five
eggs and sugar equal in weight to the
grated pineapple. and continue beating
till the mixture is very light. Stir in !
one eupful of cream, the grated pine
apple and the whites of the eggs, beaten /
to a stiff froth Bake with an under (
crust only. This pie is to be served |
very cold.