salt,
baking powder and flour thoroughly, chop in the lard, add water. Use as
little flour as possible when rolling out. This makes a light, crisp,
flaky and delicious pie crust.

Pie for a Suffragist's Doubting Husband

1 qt. milk human kindness
8 reasons:
War
White Slavery
Child Labor
8,000,000 Working Women
Bad Roads
Poisonous Water
Impure Food

Mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially
with the upper crust. Upper crusts must be handled with extreme care for
they quickly sour if manipulated roughly.

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Sigmund Spaeth, in his "Operatic Cook Book, in Life," gives this recipe
for the making of the opera "Pagliacci."

Beat a large bass drum with the white of one clown. Then mix with a
prologue and roll very thin. Fill with a circus just coming to town. One
leer, one scowl and one tragical grin. Bake in a sob of Carusian size.
Result: the most toothsome of Italy's pies.

Where is the man that can live without dining?
--Lytton.

Orange Pie

1 Large Grated Apple
1 Orange--grated rind and juice
1/2 cup Sugar
2 Eggs--Butter size of an egg

Grate apple; add orange, sugar, butter and yolks. Beat whites and add
lastly. Bake slowly in open shells.

Lancaster County Pie

1 cup molasses
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup sugar
1 cup boiling water
3 cups flour
1/2 cup butter

Make a pie crust and line 4 pie pans. Put soda in the molasses and heat
thoroughly, then add the boiling water. Divide in the four pans. Mix
flour, sugar and butter together for the crumbs and put on top of the
syrup.

Bake in moderate oven.

Brown Sugar Pie

2/3 cupful of brown sugar
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Cook until waxy looking, then take the yolks of 2 eggs and 1 heaping
tablespoon of flour and 1 1/2 cupfuls milk. Mix all together smooth. Add
to the above ingredients. Cook until thick and add vanilla. Have a baked
crust, use the whites beaten stiff for the top. Return to the oven for a
minute or two.

Banbury Tart

1 cup flour
2 heaping tablespoons of lard
Cold water

Handle as lit