German Pie Recipes

Vintage German Recipes For Pie Making

To make a pastry dough for all shaped pies - Take flour, the best that you can get, about two handfuls, depending on how large or small you would have the pie. Put it on the table and with a knife stir in two eggs and a little salt. Put water in a small pan and a piece of fat the size of two good eggs, let it all dissolve together and boil. Afterwards pour it on the flour on the table and make a strong dough and work it well, however you feel is right. If it is summer, one must take meat broth instead of water and in the place of the fat the skimmings from the broth.

When the dough is kneaded, then make of it a round ball and draw it out well on the sides with the fingers or with a rolling pin, so that in the middle a raised area remains, then let it chill in the cold. Afterwards shape the dough as I have pointed out to you. Also reserve dough for the cover and roll it out into a cover and take water and spread it over the top of the cover and the top of the formed pastry shell and join it together well with the fingers. Leave a small hole. And see that it is pressed together well, so that it does not come open. Blow in the small hole which you have left, then the cover will lift itself up. Then quickly press the hole closed.

Afterwards put it in the oven. Sprinkle flour in the dish beforehand. Take care that the oven is properly heated, then it will be a pretty pastry. The dough for all shaped pastries is made in this manner.

Sift together a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder and a pint of flour; add a piece of butter as large as a walnut, a pinch of salt, one beaten egg, and sweet milk enough to make a soft dough. Roll it out half an inch thick; butter a square biscuit tin or deep dish pie plate and cover the bottom and sides with the dough; fill the pan with quartered juicy apples, sprinkle with a little cinnamon and molasses.

Bake in rather quick oven until the crust and apples are cooked a light brown. Sprinkle a little sugar over the top five minutes before removing from the oven.

Ripe peaches are fine used in the same manner.

One pint cottage cheese, one-half grated rind of lemon, two tablespoons butter, three eggs, one pinch salt, one-half lemon, one-half pint cream, one and one-half tablespoons flour, one cup sugar.

Put the cottage cheese in mixing bowl. Add the melted butter, cream, lemon juice, sugar, grated rind of lemon, and salt. Mix all together thoroughly; then add the eggs separated and beaten; then the flour.

Line the form with dough made as follows: One cup flour, one pinch salt, four tablespoons cold water, two tablespoons butter, one-fourth teaspoon sugar, one teaspoon baking powder. Add the baking powder, salt, and sugar to flour; then the butter, and mix thoroughly. Add the ice water and roll dough, handling as little as possible.

Line pie form, add the cheese preparation, and bake in moderate oven.

Line a flat dish with 1 pound apples, 1/4 pound sugar, 1 gill water (1/4 pint), 1 oz candied peel. Put the sugar and water in a saucepan and boil until the sugar is dissolved. Peel and core the apples, slice them, and cook them in the syrup until tender. Beat them to a pulp. Cut the candied peel into thin slices, and place them on the pastry, pour over the apple mixture, ornament with pasty, and bake in a moderate oven half an hour.

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