REQUEST: Prune & Cheese pie
ELaytonfel
Been lurking at the bottom of the tank here, enjoying what you guys have writ.
Now finally have enough courage (or audacity) to make a request. Like Proust,
I find my childhood in my tastebuds, but don't need recipes for French
pastries, since my childhood was a New York City one.
My aunts (long gone now) baked some wickedly good pies, but alas! I never took
down the recipes. One that sounds awful but was actually yummy, was a pie made
with prunes and cottage cheese, that had a graham crackery/brown sugary type of
bottom.
Does anyone know of it?
Would be gratified to learn the recipe to recapture times past...and passed,
thanks,
Edith
Elayt...@aol.com
Calvin Hagan
I found this one on Prodigy Food BB. Hope it is what you want.
* Exported from MasterCook *
Prune & Cottage Cheese Pie
Recipe By : American Woman's Cookbook, circa 1937
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Pies
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 1/2 cups small curd cottage cheese
1 cup chopped prunes
1/2 cup sugar (or honey or white corn syrup)
2 each eggs
1 each lemon -- juice and zest of
2 tablespoons cream
2 tablespoons butter
9 inch pie crust
or: Graham Cracker crust -- see notes
Press cheese through a ricer, add other ingredients and mix thoroughly.
Turn into pie crust and bake at 450~ until the mixture thickens slightly.
Lower heat to 325~ and bake until firm.
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NOTES : Substitute brown sugar for granulated sugar in your basic graham
cracker crust if so using. It is interesting to note that no bake times
are given in the recipe. I guess back then you kept a careful eye on the
oven.
Copied by Tom Shunick 6/98
ELaytonfel
>>> found this one on Prodigy Food BB. Hope it is what you want<<<
YES!
Oh Joy and Rapture unconfined!
Thank you thank you thank you!
This SOUNDS exactly like that long past treat, and the era it was printed in a
cookbook also fits - I'll bet my aunts had that one on their bookshelves even a
decade later.
Can't wait to see if the taste is the same!
and whilst I'm at it - I shall push my luck to the limit.
They also made something they called an "Ice Cream Pie" - except it wasn't
served cold, and it was difficult to taste the ice cream. But the point was
that they swore it was made with a pint of ice cream. Also a graham cracker
crumb crust, as I recall.
Does that ring any bells?
best,
Edith, really greedy for long-lost recipes now
http://www.edithlayton.com