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To Make One Squash or Pumpkin Pie

A historical recipe from The Golden Age Cook Book, by Henrietta Latham Dwight (1898).

A historical recipe

The Golden Age Cook Book, by Henrietta Latham Dwight (1898). Project Gutenberg eBook #26209.

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

Source and licence

From The Golden Age Cook Book, by Henrietta Latham Dwight (1898). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #26209 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26209). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. One cup of squash, one egg mixed unbeaten with the squash, a cup and a half of sugar, one milk cracker rolled fine, half a teaspoonful each of ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg, a pinch of salt and a dash of cayenne pepper.
  2. After these are well mixed, add half a cup of milk.
  3. Bake in either puff or plain paste.