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for 20 minutes more. Remove from oven but not from pie plate for 10 minutes

inches in diameter. Place on the crust 1/2 cup cubed ham. Remove the skin from lean salt pork, cube 5 oz, and place on crust having previously cooked the cubes in boiling water for 10 minutes, drained them and wiped them dry. Beat 3 eggs, pepper and salt, with 1/2 cup cream. Pour over ham and salt pork in pie crust. Dot with 12 small pieces of butter. Bake in preheated 450 oven for 15 minutes, reduce to 300 and bake

Quèche de Nancy
Prepare the evening before baking a pie crust made with 1 cup and 2 tablespoons of flour, 5 tablespoons butter, a pinch of salt, 4 tablespoons of water. The butter should be worked into the flour lightly but the mixture need be no finer than rice. Roll on a slightly floured board into a ball, cover with waxed paper, and put aside for at least 12 hours. Then roll lightly and fit into deep pie plate 9

When in 1916 Gertrude Stein commenced driving Aunt Pauline for the American Fund for French Wounded, she was a responsible if not an experienced driver. She knew how to do everything but go in reverse. She said she would be like the French Army, never have to do such a thing. Delivering to hospitals in Paris and the suburbs offered no difficulties, for there was practically no civilian traffic.