Sufficient for two large pies.

Almond Layer Pie

  For Pastry

2 cupfuls flour 7 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1/2 teaspoonful salt Water

  For Filling

6 tablespoonfuls Crisco 3/4 cupful sugar 1 lemon 3 eggs 1/2 cupful blanched powdered almonds 1/4 teaspoonful salt

Make short crust of Crisco, flour, salt, and water.  Roll out thin, and line Criscoed pie plate with piece of paste.

For filling. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, almonds, salt, grated rind and one tablespoonful lemon juice.  Mix well and spread one-half of mixture on to pastry.  Then cover with a layer of pastry, the rest of mixture, and lastly cover with pastry.  Bake in a moderate oven until brown.  Or the pastry may be rolled out, brushed over with melted Crisco, the mixture spread over it, and rolled up to form a roly-poly.  Lay on a Criscoed tin and bake in moderate oven until brown.

Sufficient for one large pie.

Flake Pastry No. 1

2 cupfuls flour 8 tablespoonfuls Crisco 3/4 teaspoonful salt Just enough cold water to hold dough together

Sift flour and salt and cut half the Crisco into flour with knife until it is finely divided.  The finger tips may be used to finish blending materials.  Then add water sparingly, mixing it with knife through dry materials.  Form with the hand into dough and roll out on a floured board to quarter inch thickness.  Spread one-third of remaining Crisco on two-thirds of dough nearest you; fold twice, to make three layers, folding in first that part on which Crisco has not been spread.  Turn dough, putting folded edges to the sides; roll out, spread and fold as before.  Repeat once more.  Use a light motion in handling rolling-pin, and roll from center outward.  Should Crisco be too hard, it will not mix readily with flour, in which case the result will be a tough crust.

Sufficient for two covered pies.

Flake Pastry No. 2

1/2 teaspoonful salt 2 cupfuls flour 1/2 cupful Crisco Cold water

Mix salt with flour; divide Crisco into four equal parts, rub in one of these only, and then mix to stiff paste with a little cold water.  Shape into neat oblong piece, and roll into straight strip about three times as long as it is broad.  All over this put on, with the point of knife, one of remaining quarters of Crisco, distributing it evenly in little dabs about size of a pea, so that they look like buttons on a card.  Now flour surface lightly and fold paste exactly in three by taking hold of the two bottom corners and doubling them upwards from you and then of the top corners and doubling them downwards towards you.  Turn now at right angles to its former position so as to have open ends pointing towards you.