Juice of ½ orange. Dip pieces of sugar one at a time in the orange juice and push a piece down in the center of each biscuit. Grate
Orange rind over the biscuits and bake 15 minutes in a hot oven or at 450 degrees F.
PLAIN PASTRY
Put in mixing bowl
5 tablespoons shortening
3 tablespoons ice water and
½ teaspoon salt, and work until creamy, using wooden spoon. Add
1 cup pastry flour and mix by cutting with a knife. Sprinkle pastry cloth or board with
2 tablespoons flour. Pat with rolling pin and roll the pastry to fit a large pie plate. Line the plate with the pastry and build up a fluted rim.
MOLASSES PIE
Put in mixing bowl
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup flour and
1 teaspoon salt and mix well. Add
1½ cups molasses
3 egg yolks slightly beaten
3 tablespoons melted butter
¾ cup nut meats cut in fine pieces. When well mixed pour into the unbaked crust. Bake 10 minutes in a hot oven, 500 degrees F., to cook the crust and set the rim. Then reduce the heat to 350 degrees F. and bake 40 minutes. Cover with
Meringue. Bake 12 minutes. Cool before serving.
