DOWDY, NEW ENGLAND STYLE

Apples or peaches may be used.  Wash the fruit and then pare and cut into thin slices.  Measure two pints of the prepared fruit and dust over it so as to thoroughly coat each piece with

  One teaspoon of cinnamon,
  One-half cup of flour.

Then pat smoothly in baking dish and cover with

  One cup of brown sugar,
  Four tablespoons cold water.

Cover with a crust the pastry and bake in a moderate oven for forty-five minutes.  Let cool and then run a knife around the edge of the baking dish and loosen the crust from the dish.  Place a large platter over the dowdy and then invert.  Dust the dowdy lightly with nutmeg and serve with fruit or vanilla sauce.

APPLE CUSTARD PIE

Line a pie tin with plain pastry.  Now place one and one-half cups of thick apple sauce in a sauce pan and add

  One cup of sugar,
  One-third cup of cornstarch,
  One-half cup of cold water.

Dissolve starch in water.

Place on the fire and bring to a boil and then cook slowly for five minutes.  Cool and then add

  One-half teaspoon of nutmeg,
  One well-beaten egg.

Pour into prepared tins and bake for twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

SHORTCAKE

The shortcake is typical of Scotland.  It is a mixture of flour, sugar and shortening worked to a paste and then rolled one-half inch thick and then decorated in various ways.  The thrifty Scotsman, after leaving the mother country and settling in the new America, felt that the use of much shortening was too expensive, and so his thrifty housewife, who was willing and even anxious to be a partner to him, cooeperated by cutting down on the amount of shortening and still turn out a rich palatable cake.  This is how she does it:  Place

  Two cups of flour,
  One-half teaspoon of salt,
  Two level tablespoons of sugar,
  Two level tablespoons of baking powder,

in a bowl and sift three times.  Now rub in six tablespoons of shortening and then add seven tablespoons of water and work to a smooth elastic dough.  Turn on a prepared pastry board and mould into shape to fit the pie tin with the hands.  Wash the top of the dough with milk and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and bake in a moderate oven for twenty-five minutes.  Remove, cool and cut into wedge sections like pie and serve with cheese or fruit.

PEACH SHORTCAKE

  Yolk of one egg,
  One-half cup of sugar.

Cream well and then add

  Three tablespoons of shortening,
  Four tablespoons of water,
  One cup of flour,
  Two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
  One-half teaspoon of vanilla.