FOR BUFFET MEALS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 208, 30 May 1936, Page 23

FOR BUFFET MEALS

American Cream Pies All of the following pies are delicious served cold, and suitable for buffet luncheons and dinners:— Butterscotch Pic. — Kill a baked short-crust pie shell with the following mixture:— Three-quarters cup brown sugar, four tablespoons butter, onethird cup flour, half-teaspoon salt, two eggs slightly beaten, two cups milk, one-quarter teaspoon vanilla. Mix butter and sugar. Cook for two minutes, or until syrup is brown. Add one and two-thirds cups cold milk, and scald over hot water. Mix flour and salt with remaining milk. Add to hot mixture, and cook for 15 minutes. Add eggs, cook for two minutes, then cool ami flavour. Cover filling with whipped cream or with meringue. Banana Pie,— One cup scalded milk, one-third of a cup sugar, two and tw’olliirds tablespoons Hour, pinch of salt, two egg yolks slightly beaten, onequarter cup thin cream or rich .milk, three-quarter tablespoon lemon juice, one large banana. Mix sugar, flour, and salt, and add egg yolks. Pour on scalded milk gradually, and cook in a double boiler for 15 minutes, stirring constantly till mixture thickens. Cool, add creain, lemon juice, and banana, cut in tliin slices. Chill thoroughly, spread in a baked pie shell, and top with meringue or whipped cream. 1’ or meringue take two egg whites, two tablespoons sugar, half-tablespoon lemon juice, or one-quarter teaspoon vanilla. Beat egg whites till stiff, add sugar gradually, and continue beating. Add flavouring, spread over tart, then put in slow oven till brown. Mods Cream Pie. — Two eggs, two cups milk, one cup sugar, two tablespoons cornflour. Beat sugar, cornflour, and egg yolks together. After milk has come to the boil stir in this mixture, and add a pinch of salt and about a teaspoon of butter. Bake a short-crust foundation, fill with the mixture, then bake again. Serve hot with meringue topping or cold spread with whipped cream.

Boston Cream Pic. — Cream part— Put on two cups of milk to boil, break two eggs into a dish, add one cup of sugar, and half-cup flour previously mixed. After beating well stir into milk just as it commences to boil. Add one tablespoon of butter, and keep ou stirring one way until it thickens. Flavour with vanilla or lemon. Crust — Two eggs, beaten separately, one cup sugar, four tablespoons softened butter, one cup and three-quarters sifted flour, two and a half teaspoons baking powder, eight tablespoons milk or water, one-quarter teaspoon salt. Cook in two medium-sized pietins. Flavour the crust witli lemon or vanilla as for 1511ing. When straw-coloured remove from tile oven. cool, and spread with filling.