Light Bread Pie
Origin: Mobile, Alabama
Source: Abby Fisher, 1881
Ingredients
- stale bread
- 1.5 teacupfuls grated bread
- 2 teacupfuls sweet milk
- 1 orange
- 4 eggs
- 0.5 teacupful sugar
- 1 tablespoonful butter
- 1 pie crust
Instructions
- Grate the stale bread.
- Combine one and one-half teacupfuls of grated bread with two teacupfuls of sweet milk, the juice of one orange, and half of the orange peel, grated.
- Stir in the beaten yolks of four eggs.
- Add half a teacupful of sugar and one tablespoonful of butter to the mixture.
- Line a pie plate with one crust at the bottom only.
- Pour the filling into the crust.
- Bake quickly.
- After baking, top the pie with a meringue made from the four egg whites beaten very light.