How We Cook in Tennessee

Ingredients

• one cup sugar
• one pint milk
• one cup cream
• half cup sugar
• half cup butter
• half cup but- ter
• one cup jam
• two cups milk
• two-thirds cup sugar
• two tablespoons flour
• one cup milk
• two tablespoons flour dissolved in milk
• two cups sugar
• one tablespoon corn starch
• four eggs
• three heaping teaspoons flour
• two squares of bak- er's chocolate
• three eggs
• one nutmeg
• six level table- spoons sugar
• six lemons
• six eggs
• salt

Directions

1. spoons sugar and spread on pies. Return to oven and brown.

2. Chocolate Pies. — Four eggs, one cup sugar, three heaping teaspoons flour, one pint milk and nearly two squares of Bak- er's chocolate; melt and stir it in the eggs and sugar; it mixes best this way; flavor with vanilla.

3. Chocolate Pie. — Boil together one cup cream, half cup sugar, a little block of chocolate; pour this over three eggs, one cup sugar, half cup butter, well beaten together. Bake in an under crust only.

4. Strawberry Pie. — Line a pie plate with rich paste and fill with whole strawberries that have been washed and hulled. Sprinkle with sugar and lay narrow strips of the paste across the top in lattice fashion. Bake quickly, cool and serve fresh.

5. Sharkey Pie. — Yolks four eggs, one cup sugar, half cup but- ter, one cup jam or preserves without syrup, one nutmeg and one glass of wine. Bake in nice pastry and use whites of eggs for meringue.

6. Cream Pie. — Two cups milk, two-thirds cup sugar, table- spoon butter, yolks three eggs. When the milk has come to a boil have ready the well beaten yolks, to which have been added two tablespoons flour, mixed to a smooth paste with milk ; add some of the boiling milk to this, then pour all together and let boil until it thickens, stirring briskly; add butter. Bake the crust to the pie first ; then put cream filling in it and have a stiff meringue on top; return to over and let it brown; flavor pies with vanilla, and meringue with lemon. Very fine. — Mrs. Sam Lancaster.

7. Cream Pie. — One cup milk, yolks three eggs, six level table- spoons sugar, pinch of salt, two tablespoons flour dissolved in milk; flavor with vanilla. When this is cooked and cool, pour into a baked crust and cover with a meringue made of whites and brown in oven.

8. Lemon Pies. — Juice of six lemons, yolks of six eggs, two cups sugar, one tablespoon corn starch, half cup butter; cook

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

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