No. 258 Apple Pot-Pie
Fourteen apples peeled, cored, and sliced; 1½ pints flour, 1 teaspoonful baking-powder, 1 cupful sugar, ½ cupful butter, 1 cupful milk, large pinch of salt. Sift the flour with the powder and salt; rub in the butter, cold; add the milk, and mix into a dough as for tea-biscuits; with it line a shallow stewpan to within two inches of the bottom. Pour in 1½ cupfuls water, the apples and sugar; wet the edges, and cover with the rest of the dough; then place it in a moderate oven till the apples are cooked; then remove it from the oven; cut the top crust in four equal parts; dish the apples; lay on them the pieces of side crust cut in diamonds, and the pieces of top crust on a plate. Serve with cream.