Three cups flour, 1/2 teaspoonful Royal baking powder, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 cup lard, 3/4 cup boiling water.

Pie crust: 1 1/2 cups flour, 1-3 to 1/2 cup shortening, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, cold water. Filling: 1 cup brown sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls water. Let this mixture boil until it forms hard ball in cold water. Stir into this yolks of 2 eggs, 1 tablespoonful flour, 1 1/2 cups of sweet milk. Cook until thickened and add 1/2 teaspoonful vanilla. Make meringue of whites of eggs and 2 tablespoonfuls sugar.

Line a deep dish with a good crust. 1 cup pumpkin, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful melted butter, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1/2 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 cup milk. Fill crust and bake slowly. Makes 1 pie.

Two tablespoonfuls cornstarch, dissolved in 1/2 cup cold water and stirred into a cup of boiling water and cooked for 3 minutes, stirring all the time. Then take from fire and add the juice of 3 oranges and the rind of 1; 1 cup sugar, 1/8 teaspoonful of salt, and when it becomes cold the yolks of 3 eggs are beaten in. The mixture is then poured into a baked pie shell and covered with the whites, beaten with 4 teaspoonfuls of powdered sugar. Put in oven and brown.

One cup grated pineapple
juice and grated rind of 1 lemon
1/2 cup sugar

Put in double cooker, and when hot add yolks of 2 eggs beaten. Bake your crust as you would for lemon pie, pour in your mixture hot. Bake, then add the whites of the eggs beaten with 2 spoons of sugar as a meringue for the top. Return to the oven a moment till set, or a light brown.

One cup of stewed rhubarb
1 cup of sugar
yolks of 2 eggs

Bake with 1 crust, beat the whites of 2 eggs to a stiff froth, spread over the top and brown nicely.

One coffee cup of cranberries, cut in halves; 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup water; 1 large spoon flour.

Two teacups boiled and strained squash
3/4 teacup brown sugar
3 eggs
2 tablespoons molasses
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 tablespoon ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teacups milk
1 small tablespoon salt

Makes 2 pies.

Three cups of stewed pumpkin sifted
2 cakespoons molasses
4 sugarspoons sugar
2 eggs
a little salt
1 tablespoon ginger

Stir well, add 3 cups sweet milk, cinnamon if desired. This makes 2 large pies.

One cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoonful cornstarch dissolved in 2 large spoonfuls cold water
1 1/4 cups sifted flour in which thoroughly mix 1 1/2 teaspoonfuls baking powder

Bake in 2 round pie or cake tins. Custard.---1 egg, 1 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cups milk, 2 tablespoonfuls cornstarch, boiled together, adding vanilla or lemon flavor. Split the cakes, spread in the custard. Moisten the top of pie with least bit of custard and sprinkle over with sugar.