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 PASTRY, PIES AND TARTS. 329

gether, then add the yolks of three well-beaten eggs, beat this thor- oughly, then add the juice of the lemons, two cups of water and a piece of butter the size of a walnut. Set this on the fire in another dish containing boilng water and cook it until it thickens, and will dip up on the spoon like cold honey. Remove it from the fire, and when cooled, pour it into a deep pie-tin, lined with pastry ; bake, and when done, have ready the whites, beaten stiff, with three small tablespoon- fnls of sugar. Spread this over the top and return to the oven to set and brown slightly. This makes a deep, large sized pie, and very

Superior. Ebbitt House, Washington.

LEMON PIE. No. 2.

ONE coffee cupful of sugar, three eggs, one cupful of water, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one heaping tablespconful of flour, the juice and a little of the rind of one lemon. Reserve the whites of the eggs, and after the pie is baked, spread them over the top, beaten lightly, with a spoonful of sugar, and return to the oven until it is a light brown.

This may be cooked before it is put into the crust or not, but it is rather better to cook it first in a double boiler or dish. It makes a medium-sized pie. Bake from thirty-five to forty minutes.

LEMON PIE. No. 3.

MOISTEN a heaping tablespoonful of cornstarch with a little cold water, then add a cupful of boiling water ; stir over the fire till it boils and cook the cornstarch, say two or three minutes ; add a teaspoonful of butter and a cupful of sugar ; take off the fire, and, when slightly cooled, add an egg well beaten and the juice and grated rind of a fresh lemoTu Bake with a crust. This makes one small pie.

LEMON PIE. No. 4.

Two LARGE, fresh lemons, grate off the rind, if not bitter reserve it for the filling of the pie, pare off every bit of the white skin of the lemon (as it toughens while cooking) ; then cut the lemon into very thin slices with a sharp knife and take out the seeds ; two cupfuls of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of water and two of sifted flour. Put into the pie a layer of lemon, then one of sugar, then one of the grated rind, and, lastly, of flour, and so on till the ingredients are usedj sprinkle the water over all, and cover with upper crust. Be

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