Name: Fried Pies
Yield: Yield: 4 to 6 Servings.
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon ground allspice; ¼ pound dried apple slices; 5 eggs, separated; ¼ teaspoon salt; 2½ cups all-purpose flour; Lard or vegetable oil; Grated zest of ½ lemon; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; ½ cup currants (optional); 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg; ½ cup heavy cream; ½ cup confectioners’ sugar; 1 cup brown sugar

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Yield:
4 to 6
Servings.

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Christmas Cook

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

About

In an article called “Christmas Cates” in Good Housekeeping for December 1914, Martha McCulloch-Williams launched into a long and detailed disquisition on Fried Pies, also known as Christmas Pasties. This is the same author who only the year before had published her popular Dishes & Beverages of the Old South, a book rich in details about Christmas.

The suggested filling for the pasties was dried fruit, preferably d

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