The Laurel Health Cookery: A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive Ways

rich milk, ⅓ cup sugar, 3 eggs, salt. Dusting of coriander or anise, or any suitable flavoring. =Custard Pie that Makes Its Own Crust=--1½ pt. rich milk (or scant 1½ pt. skimmed milk and 1½ tablespn. of butter), ⅓-½ cup sugar, 3 eggs, 4 tablespns. flour, salt; almond, lemon or coriander flavoring. Mix ingredients, stirring flour with milk and pour into an oiled pie pan. Bake very slowly. The flour will settle to the bottom and form a delicate crust. Use 1 more egg, mix ingredients with 2 whole eggs and 2 yolks more, then add the 2 whites stiffly-beaten, at the last. This makes a more attractive pie. =Custard Pie Without Milk=--4 eggs, 3 or 4 tablespns. sugar, salt, 1 pt. boiling water, flavoring. Beat 2 whole eggs and 2 more yolks with sugar and salt, pour boiling water over gradually, stirring, pour into crust, dust with coriander, bake; meringue with whites of 2 eggs. Vanilla, lemon or orange flavoring may be used in the pie. The whites may be beaten stiff and stirred into the filling before baking instead of adding the meringue. =Rice Pie= 1 good pint rich milk 1 cup well cooked rice 2 eggs 4 tablespns. sugar vanilla, or no flavor Dust with coriander sometimes. May beat eggs separate and add whites last. One crust. =Crumb Pie= Line the pan with crust, put into it a large pint of rather dry bread crumbs (cracker crumbs may be used) and turn over them sweetened, thin cream to fill the crust. Bake. Serve warm or cold. Any desired flavor may be used. =★ Crumb Pie No. 2= 1 cup fine dry bread crumbs ½ cup sugar 1 tablespn. flour 1 egg, 2½ cups milk ground coriander seed or other flavoring Mix crumbs, sugar and flour, add milk to beaten egg and pour over dry ingredients, stirring, turn into crust, dust with coriander, bake in moderate oven. Lemon or vanilla flavoring may be used in the pie but they do not compare with the dusting of ground coriander seed. =Buttermilk Pie. Excellent= 1½ pt. buttermilk ¾ cup sugar