Sweet Baked Goods Butternut Pie

butternut pie
(from Excelsior Cook Book and Housekeeper's Aid, by Laura Trowbridge, 1863)

Ingredients:

butter-nut meats, or hickory-nut meats​

2 eggs​

1-1/2 pints milk​

2 tbsp. sugar​

Instructions:

A tea-cupful of butter-nut meats, two eggs, a pint and a half of milk, nearly two table-spoonfuls of sugar.​

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A hickory pie may be made in the same way. They have a very nice flavor.​

This recipe references the butter-nut and the hickory-nut for use in a pie.

Hickory-nuts are sometimes unpalatable, and are used as animal feed. There are three species of Hickory that have edible and tasty nuts in North America, the Shagbark Hickory, the Shellbark Hickory, and Carya illinoinensis, better known as the PECAN TREE!

Yes, this may be one of the earliest references to a Pecan Pie!

 

[donna]

Butternuts were also called white walnuts.

 

[donna]

Thought bump for Pecan Pie Day, July 12th. As Mike states this maybe reference to use of pecan nuts for the pie.

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

Modern recipes call for much more sugar it seems. This sounds like a nut quiche- very interesting!