The Blue Grass Cook Book

page 210

      NUTMEG PIE
Mrs. Strauder Goff

  3 eggs beaten separately ,

  1 pint sugar,

  1 medium-sized nutmeg,

  Piece of butter the size of an egg.

Mix, adding the whites last. This will make 2 pies.

      ORANGE PIE

  4 oranges,

  1 quart milk,

  2 tablespoons cornstarch,

  3 eggs,

  1 cup of sugar.

Peel, seed, and cut into small pieces the four oranges. Add the sugar and let it
stand. Boil the quart of milk and stir in the cornstarch, which has been mixed
with a little water. Add the yolks of the three eggs, which have been well
beaten. Cook till a thick custard, and after cooled add the orange and sugar.
Cook in pastry, and then make a meringue of the three whites and spread on top
and brown slightly.

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