Pie varieties and quick methods from Argo kitchens
A nostalgic overview of American pies including peach, lemon meringue, apple, banana cream and chocolate cream. It highlights crusts made with margarine, starch thickened fillings, and streamlined methods for turnovers and deep dish pies developed at Best Foods.
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Lemon Meringue Pie and Variants from Basic Pie Fillings
A historical dessert collection detailing Lemon Meringue Pie with a lemon rind and corn starch filling, a two-step meringue topping, and Vanilla Cream Pie as a base. It also describes Banana Cream Pie, Coconut Cream Pie, and Chocolate Cream Pie using the same custard base, with optional meringue or chocolate additions and notes on serving.
Margarine Pastry for a Single Crust Pie
Instructions for making a margarine based pie crust. Combine flour and salt then cut in margarine until crumbly. Add cold water, form dough, roll to 12 inch circle, fit into a 9 inch pan, trim and flute edge. Bake 450 F 12–14 minutes if baked blind. otherwise bake with filling.
Margarine Pastry for Double Crust Pie
Instructions for making a two crust pie using margarine and flour. Mix, cut in margarine, form dough, roll into a 12 inch circle, fit into pan, trim and seal edges, bake as per filling. Note suggests using liquid vegetable oil first on margarine label to raise polyunsaturates.
Deep Dish Apple Pie from a Historic Recipe Card
Recipe outlines preparing apples, cutting them into eighths, and layering in six 1 1/2 cup dishes with a sugar corn starch cinnamon rind and lemon mixture poured over. Top with small pastry circles bake at 450 F until brown. yields six servings.
Fresh Peach Lattice Pie Recipe
A two crust peach pie recipe using sliced ripe peaches sugar cornstarch lemon juice and margarine. Prepare filling line a 9 inch plate with pastry, fill, weave a lattice top, seal trim and bake at 425 F for about 55 minutes until golden.
Fruit Turnovers Recipe Steps and Fry Bake Method
A compact set of instructions for making fruit turnovers with dried fruit filling, pastry dough portions, and fritter technique. Includes measures for raisins corn syrup and mace, dough rolling, sealing, frying in oil or baking with egg wash, temperatures, times, and yields fourteen pastries.