San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-04
Table Talks
Dinner Menu
BY Alice Irwin
Stuffed Baked Tomatoes.
Succotash.
Combination Salad.
Butterscotch Pie.
BY Alice IRWIN

There is no recipe for which the
requests are more frequent than but.
terscotch pie: there is no recipe more
difficult TO find. / have searched
through many cook books and have
found only half dozen recipes; I
have tried them all. And after I try
each new one I continue by own eff
forts 10 evolve butterscotch pie
which is just right-not too sweet or
too gummy.
The recipe which / am using today
originally called for one and one-haf
cups brown sugar, but / have cut
down the amount to one cup. IL your
taste demands sweet pie filling, by
all means use the original amount.
Here are all the ingredients and the
method:
Mix one cup brown sugar thorough
" with two tablespoons of flour, two
tablespoons cornstarch and one-fourth
teaspoon salt. Gradually stir in one
and one half cups hot water mot boil
ing, but more than lukewarm) and
cook over low flame until thick; this
takes about IL minutes. Then grad,
ually add the beaten yolks of two eggs
and continue cooking for one minute.
Remove from the fire and add two
tablespoons butter and one teaspoon
vanilla. Cool and turn into baked
pie shell.
Here is a new kink about making
meringuc. For the white of each egg
add one tablespoon of cold water.
Since for this meringue we are using
the whites of two eggs, as soon as we
place them in the bowl we will add two
tablespoons of cold water. Beat the
egg whites stiff and gradually add four
tablespoons of graduated sugar while
you continue beating. Spread merin-
que over filling and bake slowly to a
delicate brown. Much experimenting
has convinced me that the best results
are obtained ct a temperature of 800
degrees. which means that your pie
must remain in the oven 10 to 20 min
utcS.
In our family we have a pleasant
difference of opinion as to which is the
best sort of beaten to use with whites
of eggs My preference is for Dover
or Turbine beaten: the other member
of the family will have none of them,
but insists upon a wire whisk, with the
Cgg whites and water spread out on a
platter instead of in a bowl.
II YOU are following the summer
custom Of observing the meatlcss day
each Wednesday, use mixture OF
cooked rice, minced green peppers and
tomato pulp as the filling of your to
, ImatOcS. Some of the baked ham left
r from Sunday dinner may be combined
r with rice it you desire. Or a chess
e and rice mixture is another POSSIBLE
: ity. The simplest sort of filling is tn
tomato pulp mixed with bread crumbs
:. | suppose some folks would insist upoT
= adding onions to this.
| HAWAIIAN HAM.
! One slice ham, one inch thick;
Al two Guns water. three large sweet
:! potatoes. half cup flour, six slices
pineapple. half teaspoon sugar, one
fourth teaspoon salt. one egg, three
tablespoons sour milk.
= Scar ham on all sides; put in roass
d or or casserole. add water, and plae
q in moderate oven $50 degreesl for
{ hours. Cook sweet potatoes in boilini
d water until soft; remove skins an
d cut langthwisc in thick slices. Plac
in pan containing meat ct end of l Z
e hours and continue baking for hal
It hour longer.
Silt flour, sugar and salt; add un
d beaten egg and sour milk and mi
d thoroughly. Dip slices of pineapple j
d this batter and Saute in hot fat. Serv
ham surrounded by potatoes and pine
- apple; garnish with parsley and Spin
klc potatoes with paprika.