Sweets/Treats Pot Apple Pie

pot apple pie
(from The Great Western Cook Book, Or Table Receipts: Adapted to Western Housewifery, by Anna Maria Collins, 1857)

Ingredients:

apples​

crust​

flour​

half a pint of sour milk​

molasses​

allspice​

water​

sugar​

butter​

Instructions:

Pare and slice your apples, and put them in a pot. Make your crust of a half a pint of sour milk, sweeten it with a little molasses, add a little allspice, lay it over the top of your apples, leave an opening for the steam to pass through; put a little water to your apple, let it stew slowly, three-quarters of an hour; when done, take up your crust in one dish, spice and sweeten your apple in another; slice your crust, and cover it with your apples. To be eaten with butter, while warm.​

 

[donna]

This sounds like a cookbook to get. Do you own copy?

Another wonderful pie, apple.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

This sounds like a cookbook to get. Do you own copy?

Another wonderful pie, apple.

No I don't....I wish I had a copy!

 

[mofederal]

That is different way to make pie. I don't think I ever had a pie made quite like that. It sounds good actually. I would like to see this one being made. Thanks Albert.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

This sounds like a cookbook to get. Do you own copy?

Another wonderful pie, apple.

I Googled the cookbook and while I didn't find any hard copies of it available, I did find a digital version here - http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_20.cfm

If you hit download PDF and wait a bit for it to load properly you can view all the recipes in the 1857 version of the cookbook. Looks like it has some interesting recipes for sure!

Here's an interesting one for Apple Marmalade -