Name: Cherry and Berry Pies
Ingredients: cherries or berries; flour; cotton cloth

Cherry and Berry Pies

Ingredients

cherries or berries
flour
cotton cloth

Directions

Dredge the fruit with flour to prevent the juice from being watery.
Press the edges of the pies closely together.
Dampen a narrow strip of cotton cloth and press it firmly over the edges of the pie to hold them together.
Bake the pie, then easily pull off the cloth strip without injury.

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.