Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1942)

No matter what comes before it on the menu, this cranberry orange pie will convince the whole family that the dinner has been perfect. For quick and easy pies use the packaged puddings for fillings, as in the chocolate pie and tarts at the left. Below, this molasses chiffon pie needs only a little brown sugar as its sweetening agent. WHEN we ran a favorite recipe contest in the Cooking Corner one correspondent told us a bit of advice handed down in her family from mother to daughter for generations. "No matter what else you cook, if you will make the dessert your husband likes, he will forgive and forget anything else wrong about a meal." A good dessert won't excuse poorly cooked meat and vegetables, of course, but it is true that most men look forward to. the dessert course. And since many men mention pie as their favorite dessert, here are a number of pie recipes for you to add to your files. Two delectable pies are made with cranberries and since cranberry season will soon be here I'd like to start off with cranberry orange pie and cranberry raisin pie. Cranberry Orange Pie 1 baked pie shell 4 cups fresh cranberries 1 cup sugar BY KATE SMITH RADIO MIRROR'S FOOD COUNSELOR Listen to Kate Smith's daily talks at noon and her Friday nighl Variety Show, heard on CBS, sponsored by Genera/ Foods. 2 tbls. flour Vs tsp. salt 1 cup corn syrup Vz cup orange juice Grated rind of 1 orange 1 tbl. melted butter Peeled orange slices Wash cranberries and run through a food grinder. Combine with sugar, flour, salt, corn syrup, orange juice and rind and melted butter and cook together, allowing to come to boiling point once. Cool and pour into baked pie shell. Just before serving, garnish with peeled orange slices, allowing one slice per serving, and top each slice with meringue made by beating 1 egg white until stiff and beating in slowly 2 tablespoons corn syrup. Cranberry Raisin Pie Pie Pastry for double crust 3 cups fresh cranberries *£ cup raisins % cup sugar 1% tbls. flour % cup corn syrup % cup hot water Grated rind Vz lemon Combine cranberries and raisins. Mix together sugar and flour and stir into fruit. Combine corn syrup, hot water and lemon rind and mix with other ingredients. Pour mixture into pastry lined pie plate and cover with second crust. Bake at 400 degrees F. about 45 minutes. You probably noticed that corn syrup plus very little sugar is used as a sweetening of the above recipes. Now here are two other delicious pies which rely on molasses as a chief ingredient. Molasses Pecan Pie Pie pastry for single crust % cup butter V2 cup granulated sugar 3 eggs, unbeaten % cup New Orleans type molasses 1 cup sliced pecan meats Cream butter, add sugar and cream together. Add eggs, molasses and lemon juice and beat with rotary egg beater until mixture is well blended. Add pecan meats and pour into pastry lined pie plate. Bake at 450 degree F. for 10 minutes, reduce heat to 350 degrees F. and bake for 30 minutes more. Molasses Chiffon Pie 1 baked pie shell V2 cup New Orleans type molasses V4 cup brown sugar 3 tbls. ground chocolate 3 eggs V3 cup milk 1 tsp. cinnamon V2 tsp. nutmeg y4 tsp. ginger V4 tsp. salt 1 envelope plain gelatin 14 cup cold water 3 egg whites, stiffly beaten Beat egg yolks slightly and combine in top of double boiler with molasses, sugar, chocolate, Cont'd on page 65) 44 RADIO MIRROR