missabyss  posted a recipe for Oatmeal Pie. I'd never heard of such a thing, so of course I had to make it!

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To follow up a comments discussion on missabyss's Sour Cream Raisin Pie recipe, here is the stir and roll pie crust from the 1956 Betty Crocker cookbook. I did not tear the page out of the cook book--I just haven't put reinforcer rings on the holes. This page has gotten a lot of use over the years.
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This one is cut out of a newspaper but it's glued to a recipe card.  Don't know how old it is...but the paper is brown, so it could be like 40 years old.... or like 10.  But I thought it was interesting.

I'm still looking for that no-roll pastry dough recipe!

Sour Cream Raisin Pie

Ingredients:

• 2 cups sour cream
• 4 egg yolks
• 4 heaping teaspoons flour
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I think this one is from a Gold Medal cookbook...

Butterscotch Meringue Pie

• 1 9-inch pie shell
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 6 tbsp flour (GOLD MEDAL "KITCHEN TESTED")
• 1 tbsp cornstarch
• 1/4 tsp salt

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A recipe written in pencil from...about 50 years ago?  (thanks, Gramma)
Don't know the origination, sorry! :(

Oatmeal Pie

2 unbaked 8" pie shells,

Mix:
1 1/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 cup dark Karo
1 1/4 cup quick-cook oatmeal
3 beaten eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 butter melted (I don't know if this means half a cup or half a stick!)

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To stay "on topic" here is the recipe for vinegar pie which my Mom (she's in her 70s so it counts as vintage by that alone ;) ). Since I'm not sure if the handwriting on the recipe card she gave me would scan well, I'm retyping it here.

Vinegar Pie
1/2 C + 2 tbsp  Butter
1 1/4 c  Sugar
2 tbsp  Vinegar
3  Eggs
1 tsp  vanilla
1 unbaked 8" pie shell

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titania_le_fey asked for Washington Cake recipes--I went looking in my cookbooks, and found a few, some of which are listed as pie and some as cake. Here's one, from the 1920s Recipes for Desserts booklet I posted other recipes from here.

I have others from other cookbooks, which I'll be posting momentarily.


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Especially for myroughdraft, who was lamenting the lack of year round availability of macaroons, here are some vintage macaroon recipes. Now you can have them whenever you like! I was thinking that surely there ought to be a recipe for macaroons in one of my cookbooks, and I found not one but a whole bunch of them, from the 1951 edition of The Joy of Cooking ( Read more... )