Apple Pie

Name: Apple Pie
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons water; 2 cups cold water; 2 tablespoons of cornstarch; 1 cup dark-brown sugar; 2 tablespoons cornstarch; 1 tablespoon butter; 1 cup milk; 4 tablespoons sugar; 1 egg; 2 eggs

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal church. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients

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Apple Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Mrs. Frank Saylor.
Line a pie pan with pastry, and fill with sliced tart apples. Sprinkle with ½ cup sugar and teaspoon flour well mixed. Add 2 tablespoons water. Dot with cubes of butter and dust with cinnamon. Wet edge of lower crust, put on upper crust, press closely together, and trim edge; fold and crimp. Make opening in upper crust to allow steam to escape. Bake in moderate oven from 30 to 45 minutes.
Pies. 143
BUTTER SCOTCH PIE No. 1.
Mrs. George Higgins.
iy2 cups dark-brown sugar. Butter size of egg.
il/2 cups cold water.
Bring to boiling point, but do not stir.
Mix the yolk of 1 egg with 2 tablespoons of cornstarch and stir into the boiling mixture. Cook until thick. Put in a baked crust. Beat the white of the egg to stiff froth ; spread on top ; place in oven to slightly brown.
BUTTER SCOTCH PIE No. 2.
Mrs. A. Seidensticker, Mrs. M. Smedley.
Y,olks of 2 eggs.
Stir well when cooking. Make meringue of whites and 4 tablespoons sugar.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

833Calories

27 gProtein

26 gFat

120 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Water	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal church. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together77,875 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).