Les Fryes

Original:
Take fresh cheese, and pare it clene and grinde hit in a mortar small, and draw yolkes and white of egges through a streynor and cast there-to, and grinde hem together; then cast thereto sugur, butter and salt, and put all together in a coffin of faire paste , and lete bake enough, and serve it for the.

Redaction

Filling:
16 oz. Ricotta
3 eggs
Ľ C. sugar
Ľ tsp. Salt
2 TB. Soft butter

Crust:
ľ C. white flour
Ľ C. whole wheat flour
1/3 C. salted butter
2 ˝ TB. water

Make the pie crust first: mix flours, cut butter finely into flour with two knives, then mix the water into the flour-butter mixture without crushing the flour and butter together. Makes one 9” pie crust. Pre-bake crust for 10 minutes. Mix filling and pour into crust. Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes.

Source:
Renfrow, Cindy
Take a Thousand Eggs or More
1990
ISBN 0-9628598-4-2