Category: Filling

  • Flapper Pie

    Ingredients

    • 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour
    • 2/3 cup white sugar
    • 1/3 teaspoon salt
    • 1/3 cup cold milk
    • 1 1/6 cup hot milk
    • 2 egg yolks (use whites for meringue)
    • 1 tablespoon butter

    Method

    1. Preheat oven to 425°F.
    2. Mix flour, sugar, and salt into cold milk.
    3. Stir cold mixture gradually into the hot milk in a saucepan over medium-low heat.
    4. Increase temperature and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
    5. Warm egg yolks and stir briskly into milk.
    6. Remove from heat and allow to cool for a few minutes.
    7. Add butter and stir until melted.
    8. Pour filling into crust.
    9. Top with meringue.
    10. Bake until meringue is browned (about 5 to 7 minutes).

    Source

    Barkley family recipe.
  • Mock Cherry Pie

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup cranberries
    • 1/2 cup seeded raisins, chopped
    • 1 cup white sugar
    • 1 tablespoon flour
    • 1/2 cup boiling water
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • pinch salt

    Method

    1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
    2. Cut cranberries in half and add raisins.
    3. Mix together sugar and flour, and stir into fruit.
    4. Pour on boiling water.
    5. Mix in vanilla and salt.
    6. Put filling in a double pie crust.
    7. Bake until crust slips in bottom of pan (about 25 minutes).

    Source

    Barkley family recipe.
  • Gooseberry Pie

    Ingredients

    • 2 cups gooseberries
    • 1/2 cup water
    • 1 cup white sugar
    • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
    • 1/8 teaspoon salt

    Method

    1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
    2. Cook berries in water in saucepan over medium heat until berries are tender.
    3. Mix sugar, flour, and salt in with berries and cook until thick.
    4. Cool, then put filling in pie shell and top with meringue.
    5. Bake until meringue is browned (about 15 minutes).

    Source

    Barkley family recipe.
  • Chocolate Filling

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup boiling water
    • 1/2 cup white sugar
    • 2 tablespoons corn starch
    • 1 tablespoon cocoa

    Method

    1. Combine all ingredients in a saucepan.
    2. Boil over medium heat until filling thickens.

    Source

    Barkley family recipe, card marked Edna.
  • Fluffy Frosting

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup white sugar
    • 2 egg whites
    • 4 tablespoons cold water
    • 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
    • dash salt
    • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

    Method

    1. Combine all ingredients except the vanilla in the top of a double boiler over medium heat.
    2. Beat ingredients until frosting forms stiff peaks.
    3. Remove from heat and beat in vanilla.

    Source

    Barkley family recipe, card marked O.E.S.