Cornstarch Pastry
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
servings
Method
Rub Crisco lightly into the cornstarch and flour.
Add salt, sugar, baking powder, beaten egg yolk, and sufficient milk to mix into a stiff paste.
Roll out lightly and use for tartlets or one-crust pies.
Original recipe, verbatim
Cornstarch Pastry
1>4 cupfuls cornstarch ^j teaspoonful salt
l}4 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful baking powder
2 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 yolk of egg
}4 cupful Crisco Milk to mix
Rub Crisco lightly into cornstarch and flour, add salt, sugar, baking
powder, beaten yolk of egg, and sufficient milk to mix to stiff" paste.
Roll out lightly and use for tartlets or one crust pie.
Sufficient for two large pies.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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