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SquashGraham or Whole Wheat Pie Crust

  • 1½ cups Graham flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 2½ tablespoons shortening
  • Cold water to mix
  • (1 teaspoon of sweetening is an improvement)
  1. Sift together the dry ingredients.
  2. Mix sifted dry ingredients with shortening.
  3. Mix to dough of proper consistency with cold water in which has the dissolved sweetening.
  4. Roll, cut, and bake as usual.

Farmers’ Bulletin 955 Use of Wheat-Flour Substitutes in Baking March 1918

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