This section is from the book "The Laurel Health Cookery", by Evora Bucknum Perkins. Also available from Amazon: The Laurel Health Cookery.
1 cup chopped raisins, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 tablespn. flour. Mix sugar and flour, pour boiling water over, boil up well, add raisins, cool, bake between two crusts. Vanilla or lemon flavoring may be used.
Add yolks of 2 eggs to filling of raisin pie with or without 1 tablespn. of butter a moment before removing from the fire; when heated, add vanilla, turn into baked crust and meringue with the 2 whites of eggs. Milk may be used instead of water and white sugar instead of brown.
1 1/3 cup water 4 tablespns. flour
3/4 - 7/8 cup sugar 3 tablespns. lemon juice and pulp
1 level tablespn. butter grated rind of 1 lemon
3/4 cup seeded raisins 1 egg, salt
Mix sugar and flour, pour boiling water over, add butter and raisins, cook; when raisins look plump, remove from fire, add remaining ingredients and bake between 2 crusts. The raisins may be chopped.
 
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