"PASTE" (pie crust) RECIPE - 1859
from : The Young Housekeeper's Friend.  By Mrs. Cornelius.
Boston : Taggard & Thompson, 1859.
from : Thanksgiving & the New England Pie.

Three pounds (or quarts) of flour, half a pound of lard, and a pound of butter.


"It is difficult to make flaky crust in warm weather. But cooling the butter and water with ice, and having the pastry-table in the cellar will insure tolerable success."

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From a Civil War-era envelope

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