Recipe from Mrs. D. Metcalf; 1895.

Cream Pie, page 110.

One pint of cream, 1 egg, 1 spoonful corn starch, sugar and spice to taste. Bake in one crust.


Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.


Recipes from Mrs. M. A. Metcalf; 1895.

Canned Corn, page 233

Dissolve one ounce of tartar acid in half teacup water and take 1 table-spoonful to 2 quarts of sweet corn, and while boiling hot fill the cans. When used, turn into a colander, rinse with cold water, add a little soda and sugar while cooking, and season with butter, pepper an salt.


Apple Preserves, page 235

Peel and weigh 10 pounds of apples; stew them in a pan with 1 pint of water; when they are quite tender put in 8 pounds of pounded sugar, 2 ounces of ground ginger, the juice and grated rind of four or five lemons. Let it boil half an hour or more stirring it all the time; then put it in small jars.


Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.


Return to: Cook Book Index