Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Pies, Puddings, Cakes, &c.

To Make Common Pies

One pound of lard to a gallon of flour will make very good common pies. Work the lard in the flour, put in some salt, and wet it with water, make it so that it can just be rolled out, when you have put in the fruit, wet the crust with water, put on the top and close it up, stick it with a fork on the top.