Mock Mince Pie

1/4 c. cracker crumbs.

1/4 c. sugar.

1/4 c. molasses.

1/6 c. lemon juice or vinegar.

1/2 c. raisins, seeded and chopped.

1/4 c. butter, or 1/2 c. suet.

1 egg, well beaten.

Spice.

Mix ingredients in order given. Add spices to taste, and bake between crusts; or cook, add eggs last and bake between two crusts.

Fruit Pie

(Mrs. M. C. Crawley.)

Make a rich pie dough and line pie tin, pinching up the dough all around the edge to make a deep pie. Wash a box of blackberries and drain, then add 2 scant tablespoons flour, yolks of 2 eggs and sugar to taste, and mix thoroughly. Put this mixture in the previously arranged crust and bake. Make a meringue of the two whites, beating them until dry and stiff, then add 2 tablespoons sugar and beat again until real stiff, and when the pie is done put on the meringue and brown. When the pie is taken finally from the oven, slip it on to a plate. If the meringue is well beaten before and after the sugar is added, it will stand up, and be an inch thick. The crust will bake with the fruit, not separately.

One can use strawberries, raspberries, huckleberries, etc., as well as peaches, apricots, cherries and pineapples.

Custard Pie

2 eggs.

3 tbsp. sugar.

1/8 tsp. salt.

1 1/2 c. milk.

Few gratings nutmeg.

Beat eggs slightly, add sugar, salt and milk. Line plate with paste, and build up a fluted rim. Strain in the mixture and sprinkle with a few gratings of nutmeg. Bake in quick oven at first to set rim, decrease the heat afterwards and cook at low temperature.

Pumpkin Pie

1 c. cooked pumpkin.

2 c. milk.

2 eggs.

1/4 tsp. ginger.

1/2 c. sugar.

1/2 tsp. salt.

1/2 tsp. grated nutmeg.

Beat egg slightly, add pumpkin and seasoning, then the milk. Line a pie plate with rich crust. Pour in the mixture and bake one hour in a moderate oven.

Mince Meat Pie

(Mrs. Plumridge.)

5 lbs. chopped beef.

1 pk. tart apples.

4 lbs. currants.

1 lb. citron.

4 lbs. raisins.

2 qts. brown sugar.

2 qts. molasses.

2 qts. cider.

2 lbs. chopped suet.

1 tbsp. salt.

1 tbsp. cinnamon.

2 nutmegs.

2 tbsp. cloves.

2 tbsp. ginger.

2 tbsp. allspice.

Scald well, and it will keep for a long time.

Mince Meat Pie Made With Nuts

2 lbs. raisins.

1 lb. currants.

1 lb. shelled English walnuts.

3 c. sugar.

1/2 lb. citron.

Juice of 3 oranges, juice of 3 lemons. (Grated rind of 1 orange and 1 lemon.)

4 lbs. apples, cut fine.

1 tsp. salt.

1 tsp. cinnamon.

1 nutmeg.

1/2 tsp. cloves.

Enough cider to blend it well together. Cook one hour and seal.

Chess Cake Pie

(Mrs. Moreno.)

2 eggs.

1 c. sugar.

1 small tbsp. butter.

1/2 c. milk.

1/2 c. chopped citron.

Flavor with nutmeg and bake with one crust; this makes one pie.