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French Peach Pie

A historical recipe from A little girl's cookery book, by Caroline French Benton, Mary Florence Hodge (1911).

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A historical recipe

A little girl's cookery book, by Caroline French Benton, Mary Florence Hodge (1911). Project Gutenberg eBook #69364.

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

France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a cup of sugar
  2. two tablespoonfuls of water till it thickens

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Put the crust in the pie-dish as before;
  2. boil a cup of sugar with two tablespoonfuls of water till it thickens.
  3. Lay quarters of peaches in the paste, round and round, evenly, no one on top of the other.
  4. Break ten peach-stones and arrange the kernels evenly on top;
  5. then pour the syrup over, and put a few narrow strips of crust across the pie, four each way, and bake.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From A little girl's cookery book, by Caroline French Benton, Mary Florence Hodge (1911). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #69364 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69364). 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.