Name: Miss Charlotte Mitchell, New Orleans
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons butter; one half pt

Miss Charlotte Mitchell, New Orleans

Ingredients

3 tablespoons butter
one half pt

Directions

One half pt. of flour, 3 tablespoons butter, 2 of ice water. Mix flour and butter together with a knife, make a hole in center and put in ice water. Roll out three times. Then put on ice for an hour or more. In cold weather a little more water is needed. Do not touch with hands. Cook in a hot oven. After it puffs pinch with a fork two or three times.

By Jacqueline Harrison Smith (ed.). 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.