Buckeye Cookery is a no-nonsense cookbook. Here's a tasty recipe for apple butter pie that bypasses all the complexities of more modern versions.
4 eggs
1 teacup apple butter
1 teacup sugar
1 tablespoon allspice
1 quart sweet milk
1 pinch salt
3 pie crusts
"Beat together four eggs, one tea-cup apple-butter, one of sugar, one level table-spoon allspice, add one quart sweet milk and pinch of salt; bake in three pies with an under-crust;--and, by the way, never omit a pinch of salt in custard and lemon pie, and, in fact, many kinds of fruit pies, such as green-apple, currant, gooseberry and pie-plant, are improved by it."
