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Apple Pie

A historical recipe from The Just-Wed Cook Book A Present from The Merchants of Reno, Nevada, by E. F. Kiessling (1917).

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A historical recipe

The Just-Wed Cook Book A Present from The Merchants of Reno, Nevada, by E. F. Kiessling (1917). Project Gutenberg eBook #51542.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a teaspoon butter

Method

  1. Stew green or ripe apples, when you have pared and cored them.
  2. Mash to a smooth compote, sweeten to taste, and while hot, stir in a teaspoon butter for each pie.
  3. Season with nutmeg.
  4. When cool, fill your crust, and either cross-bar the top with strips of paste, or make without cover.
  5. Eat cold, with powdered sugar strewed over it.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Wooden spoon
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Just-Wed Cook Book A Present from The Merchants of Reno, Nevada, by E. F. Kiessling (1917). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #51542 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51542). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.