For dessert — Adventurer’s Cream Pie (serves 8)
This themed recipe is for an authentic dish cooked in the continental United States during the late 1930s.
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs, well beaten
- 3 ½ cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
Method; Cream the butter and add sugar gradually. Add eggs and beat well. Sift the dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture alternately with the milk, beating after each addition. Add vanilla. Pour mixture into two well-buttered layer cake tins and bake in a moderate oven (350°F or 180°C) for 30 minutes. When cool put layers together with cream filling and sprinkle top with powdered sugar.
Cream filling
- 5 tablespoons flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups milk, scalded
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Method: Mix the ingredients together in a double boiler and gradually add the milk, stirring constantly to prevent lumps. Cook until the mixture thickens. Pour a small amount over the eggs and mix thoroughly. Add egg mixture to the balance of the first mixture and cook for two minutes. Remove from heat and cool. Add flavoring.
This recipe is in the public domain and may be used freely.
