Here is a
post WWII recipe for Pineapple Cheese Pie. The article I found it in the
Evening Recorder Amsterdam NY 14 August 1947 makes reference to the fact that
Pineapples are no longer restricted and or rationed. This recipe reflects I think the whole
rationing thing in WWII. Honey instead of sugar which I like better with dairy
stuff, yogurt and such. The evaporated
or canned milk instead of fresh which if not rationed probably was not a big
production item, when the daily supply ran dry, it ran dry, for the war effort
and all that. I am not too keen on cloves but maybe nutmeg was not readily
available from overseas. I have never had a pie crust made with milk in it that
I know of. Don't normally make pie crusts, buy them pre-made like I did for Pumpkin Pies at Thanksgiving. Seems a bit exotic but it is pastry after all and not incompatible
with that category of goods. Am on sort of a restricted diet at the moment and
will try to make this recipe in the future.
Am putting it here in case anybody wants that old fashioned taste of
what I grew up with in Philly – Pineapple Cheese Pie – Something you did not
make at home but bought at the local corner bakery on Sunday. Something a bit
obsolete and forgotten in the current American Taste Buds corporate marketing
thing.
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