Its What is Under The Crust That Counts

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7284, 11 October 1933, Page 2

Its What is Under The Crust That Counts

Apple pio is liable to make its appearanco far moro often than is really welcome. There are all sorts of other pies that can be made with very little trouble.

Apple aud Raisin.— Lino your pio-dish with pastry. and on it put a layer of sliced apples. Sprinkle with grated lemon peel, then with sugar and a littlo ground cinnamon and ground cloves add small dabs of butter and then a layer of raisins Fill your pic-dish with this mixture, add a littlo water if necessary, cover with pastry and bake. Banana.—

Peel four bananas and cut into twoinch pieces. Heat them in a saucepan with a cup of brown sugar and a ,quarter of a gill of water and half a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon. Cook .for twenty minutes, then pour into a shallow pie-plato lined with pastry, and bake a light brown. It is groatly improved if served with custard or cream. Orange.—

Melt a tablespoonful of butter and mix it with two tablespoonfuls of flour aud a cup of granulated sugar. Add the yolks of three eggs, light beaten, and the juice of three oranges and the grated four rind of one. Stir well together before pouring into shallow pio-dish lined with pastry. Bake half an hour in a moderate oven, cover with a meringue made with the eggs whites and quarter of a cup of powdered EUgar and return to tho oven to brown slightly. Fig.-

Soak two cups of dried figs overnight then put them in, s, saucepan with the water in which they have been soaked and half a cup of sugar. Chop the drained figs and heat in tho syrup with a tablespoon of flour, the juice of a large orange and that of half a lemon. Cook for fifteen minutes, stirring all the time, then pour into a pie-plat 6 lined with pastry, cover with pastry and bake. Or it can be covered with meringue and browned if liked.