Meringue-Topped Raisin Pie

Mrs. Growson Kellogg handwritten Raisin pie card

Ingredients

  • 1 egg yolk beaten slightly
  • 1 cup raisins, chopped fine
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon flour
  • beaten egg white
  • 2 Tablespoons sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon orange flavor
  • The cooked filling is put in a baked pie shell before the egg-white topping is added.

Directions

  1. Boil together until thick
  2. Put in baked pie shell, cover with beaten egg white, 2 Tablespoons sugar + 1/2 teaspoon orange flavor, beaten together, Brown in hot oven.

Timing: Boil together until thick; brown in hot oven.

Temperature: Boil together; hot oven.

Equipment: chopping tool and surface, saucepan and stirring utensil, topping bowl and beater or whisk, pie plate, and oven

As written

Raisin pie 1 egg yolk beaten slightly 1 cup raisins, chopped fine 1 cup water 1 cup brown sugar 1 Tablespoon flour beaten egg white 2 Tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon orange flavor The cooked filling is put in a baked pie shell before the egg-white topping is added. Boil together until thick Put in baked pie shell, cover with beaten egg white, 2 Tablespoons sugar + 1/2 teaspoon orange flavor, beaten together, Brown in hot oven. Boil together until thick; brown in hot oven. Boil together; hot oven. chopping tool and surface, saucepan and stirring utensil, topping bowl and beater or whisk, pie plate, and oven [A complete handwritten recipe with dense unreadable deletion between pie and shell.]

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