German Apple Pie

Line a pie pan with paste, lay in side by side tart quartered apples, sprinkle over this 1/2 cup flour, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/3 cup sour cream. Bake a rich brown without upper crust. - Mrs. M. Myers, Lewellyn, 111.

Mexican Apple Pie

Line plate with pie crust, cover with quartered tart apples, hollow side up, fill with sugar and put bits of butter over, put sweet cream over top of sugar; grated nutmeg last. Bake till apples are tender. - Mrs. F. L. Myers, Floss-more, 111.

Apple Meringue Pie

Slice and stew ripe, tart apples; run through the colander or vegetable press into the bowl. Sweeten plentifully, and beat in, while hot, a tablespoon of butter. Have ready buttered pie-plates lined with puff paste; when the sauce is cold fill these shells with it and bake until very light. Cover with meringue, slightly sweetened, and flavored with vanilla or other essence; set in a hot oven, and bake until the meringue begins to color. Sift powdered sugar over all. East cold. - Mrs. W. H. Nep-per, Thornton, 111.

Apple Pot Pie

Select 8 apples, cut in 8ths, remove core but not skin, take 1 egg, 3/4 cup rich milk, a pinch of salt, enough flour to make a stiff paste, roll out very thin, cut into 2-inch squares, put butter size of a small egg into a kettle, when a delicate brown remove to back of stove; now put in a layer of apples, a layer of rolled paste, a little brown sugar, a pinch of cinnamon; repeat. Over this pour boiling water, and cook for 20 minutes. Serve hot. - Mrs. J. H. Nathan, Glenwood, 111.

Banana Pie

2 cups banana pulp pressed through a sieve; add 1/4 cup sugar, the juice and grated rind of 1 lemon, 1 teaspoon butter, 2 egg yolks, 3/4 cup of rich milk or cream, sprinkle with cinnamon, bake, and cover with meringue. - Mrs. Geo. S. Piper, Worth, 111.

Blackberry Pie

Pick over and wash 1 1/2 cups berries. Stew until soft with enough water to prevent burning. Add sugar to taste, and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Line plate with paste, put on a rim, fill with berries (which have been cooled); arrange six strips pastry across the top, cut same width as rim; put on an upper rim. Bake 30 minutes in moderate oven. - Mrs. G. W. Perkins, Spaulding, 111.

New England Blueberry Pie

Wash and dredge blueberries with flour; then scatter among them 1/2 cup of sugar for each pt. of berries. Fill paste shells with this, dot with butter, cover with another crust and bake. These are richer than huckleberry or blueberry pies, when made in the usual way, the flour thickening the juice slightly and with butter tempering the acid. - Mrs. R. H. Pennington, Oaklawn, 111.

Butterscotch Pie

Cream together 2 beaten egg yolks. 1 cup brown sugar and a tablespoon of flour; add to a pt. of milk brought to a boil in a double boiler; cook till thick, stirring occasionally. Put into a baked crust and cover the top with the 2 beaten whites, to which 1 teaspoon of sugar has been added. Brown in slow oven. - Mrs. A. E. Hamilton, 508 S. 4th Ave., May-wood, 111