Manuscript Cookbook 224

boiler until very thick, about 8 or 10 min. Remove and cool . Whip the cream. Combine half with lemon egg micture and use to fill shell. Cover with remaining whipped cream. Chill in refrigerator about 24 hrs. Serves 6 - 8 .

Molded Tuna Salad

Dissolve 1 Tb. gelatin in 2 Tb. cold water. Add to 1 can heated mushroom soup (condensed). Add 1 small can ground tuna fish ¼ chopped celery and ¼ C. chopped cucumber. Mold and serve with tomatoes and asparagus.

{About 1 Lb. crackers} Velvet Choc. Chip Pie

Combine 1 C. fine graham cracker crumbs, ¼ C. sugar, 1½ t. cinnamon ¼ t. nutmeg, ⅛ t. salt. [....] in 1½ Tb. butter, add 2 Tb. egg white

slightly beaten. Use to line 9" buttered pie plate. Bake 5 min in 350° oven. Cool. Scald ½ C. milk. Stir into ¾ C. sugar, mixed with ⅛ t. salt and 3 beaten egg yolks. Cook in double boiler over hot, not boiling water stirring until mixture coats spoon. Remove, stir in 1 Tb. gelatin that has soaked 5 min in ¼ C. cold water. When mixture is cool, fold in 3 egg whites, beaten stiff and 1 t. vanilla or rum extract. Chill until beginning to set. Pour into crust. When firm, before serving top with ½ C. heavy cream whippped and 2 Tb. grated semisweet choc.

grated orange rind. Chill until beginning to set. Add 1 C. cream whipped. Pour into baked 9" pie crust. Before serving, arrange 5 sections of orange, pinwheel fashion on top of pie and sprinkle with ½ C. coconut.

Applesauce Pie

Roll about 4 C. cornflakes with a rolling pin until fully crushed. To 1 C. of these fine cornflake crumbs Add ⅓ C. melted butter and ¼ C. sugar Line 9" pie plate and chill Heat 3 C. canned or thick sweet applesauce with 1½ t. lemon juice and ½ t. powdered cloves. Add 2 Tb. plain gelatin, soaked in ¼ C. cold water for 5 min. Stir until thoroly dissolved. Chill. Turn chilled apple sauce into cornflake lined plate, spreading it well to the edge. Whip ¾ C. heavy cream. Add 1 Tb. conf. sugar and spread. Garnish with sprinkle of cloves

Remove and add gelatin, stirring until dissolved. Cool and chill until it begins to thicken. Beat 2 egg whites until stiff but not dry Slowly adding sugar while beating fold meringue and ½ C. cream, whipped into cranberry mixture. Pour into shell and chill.

Seafood Chowder