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14. Meat or Chicken Pie.

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14. Meat or Chicken Pie.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Use left-over, cooked meat. Cut the meat into dice or small bits and fill the dish. Sprinkle with salt and moisten with gravy, if possible. If not, add 1 cup hot water and dredge lightly with flour. Have top crust only.

  2. How would the time for cooking this pie compare with that for deep apple pie?

  3. 1. What are the chief ingredients of batter mixtures and doughs?

  4. 2. Explain leavening by air.

  5. 3. Why is steam a leavening agent?

  6. 4. How is gas formed for leavening purposes?

  7. 5. How does the presence of butter or other fat affect the stiffness of a mixture?

  8. 6. What are the important points to remember in mixing ingredients?

  9. 7. Why are baking-powder biscuits mixed differently from popovers?

  10. 8. What are the most practical oven tests?

  11. 9. Why is a loaf cake baked longer than cookies?

  12. 10. How many muffins, average size, can be made from a pint of flour?

  13. 11. Compare the cost of homemade cake with bakers’ cake.

  14. 12. What are the advantages of the homemade over the bakers’, or the bakers’ over the homemade?

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

455Calories
13 gProtein
1 gFat
95 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

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

By Helen Kinne and Anna M. Cooley. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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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