=Mock Mince Pie.=--To four quarts green tomatoes, chopped fine, allow
three pounds brown sugar, the juice of two lemons and their yellow rind,
grated, a tablespoonful each cinnamon, allspice and salt, half a
teaspoonful cloves and a tablespoonful of grated nutmeg. Put into a
porcelain lined kettle and simmer gently until reduced one half in bulk.
Now add two pounds and one-half seeded raisins, or part raisins and part
currants or chopped prunes and a cup of boiled cider. Then cook an hour
or two longer until thick. Bake as any mince pie.
=Pecan Pie With One Crust.=--One cup of sugar, three eggs, one cup of
sweet cream, one cup of pecans well mashed. Beat very light, pour into
two pie pans that are lined with good rich paste, put in bag and bake.
=Real Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie.=--If you are fortunate enough to get a
genuine old fashioned field pumpkin, you may be thankful. If forbidden
that privilege, the canned pumpkin or the dried pumpkin flour, or again
a Hubbard squash or a big yellow one, may be so manipulated as to
deceive even a connoisseur on pumpkin pies, into thinking he has the
very kind that "Mother used to make," and giving thanks accordingly. If
the field pumpkin is yours, wash, cut up without peeling, scrape out all
the wooly fiber, then put over the fire on the back of the stove. Add
just a little water to keep it from sticking on the bottom, cover
closely and steam gently for six or eight hours. At the end of this time
the pumpkin pulp should be thoroughly cooked in its own juices. Take up,
cool a little, then pull off the skin with a sharp knife. Press through
a sieve and let it stand overnight in a press so as to remove the
superfluous liquid, which should be saved to use in making Boston brown
bread. When ready to bake, measure the pulp and to every five cupfuls
allow one teaspoonful of salt, half a grated nutmeg, a tablespoonful of
mace, two teaspoonfuls of ginger and a large cupful of sugar. Beat four
eggs and stir into the pumpkin pulp, together with four cupfuls of sweet
milk and a half cupful cream. Beat well and taste to see if it is sweet
enough. Turn into plates lined with good pastry, bag, and bake
three-quarters of an hour until a golden brown and firm in the center.
Serve with good American cheese. Some old-fashioned cooks like their
pumpkin pies flavored with a little rose water.
In making pies of the canned pumpkin, observe the same proportions. If
the pumpkin flour is used, spread on a tin and brown before adding the
milk.
The English fashion of baking pumpkin as well as mince pies in
individual shells, is preferred by many who do not feel the compelling
force of tradition. A new wrinkle for the woman who holds to her pumpkin
pie for Thanksgiving, but wishes to present it in very modern guise is
to serve it with cottage cheese balls and strained honey. The
combination of flavors is certainly a most happy one. The cheese balls
are piled in a pretty dish and the honey served from a glass bowl.
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