Vinegar Pie
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups good vinegar
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoonful butter
- Flavor with lemon extract
Directions
Put in a stewpan on the stove. While this is heating take 5 yolks of eggs beaten with 1 cup water and 2 heaping tablespoonfuls flour. When the vinegar comes to a boil put in the eggs and flour, stirring until well cooked. Have four pie-tins lined with pastry, fill with the mixture and bake. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth with 4 tablespoonfuls white sugar. When the pies are done spread this over them and return to the oven a few minutes. These pies can he baked in two crusts by using four eggs, whites and yolks both, and covering with an upper crust. The rule will make four pies.