17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Monday, November 25, 1912: Today, don’t remember.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Sounds like a slow day for Grandma. Since she didn’t write much I’ll share a hundred-old-recipe for Mock Cherry Pie that I made for Thanksgiving.
The pie is made with cranberries and raisins. It’s enticingly tart–yet sweet–and a nice addition to my repertoire of Thanksgiving pies; but it tastes (surprise, surprise) more like a cranberry raisin pie than a cherry pie.
Mock Cherry Pie
Pick over and wash three cupfuls of cranberries, and cook in half a cupful of water until broken. Add one cupful of sugar and one cupful of raisins. Bake between crusts in 9-inch pan.
Adapted from recipe in Good Housekeeping (November, 1912)
I am sure it is yummy, but I can’t imagine it seeming like cherries! Looks worth trying. Thanks.
Maybe if cherries (or cherry pie filling) wasn’t available, people would let their imaginations run wild and somehow think it tasted like cherries. 🙂
I wonder what would ‘cropped’ raisins be? Like chopped? looked yummy!
I cut some of the raisins in half. But I quickly tired of cutting them, and decided it probably wasn’t necessary to chop every single raisin. 🙂
how very festive, if illnamed
It is a very pretty, festive pie.
Sounds good… will need to make it. thank you. Enjoy your posts.