Mrs. Edison’s Fairy Muffins

• 1 T  shortening
• 3 T  sugar
• 2 eggs, separated
• 1/2 t  salt
• 1 c  milk
• 2 c  flour
• 3 t  baking powder

Cream shortening and sugar and add well beaten egg yolks.  Add milk, flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.  Fold in egg whites which have been beaten stiff.  Spoon into greased muffin tins and bake at 350 degees for 25 minutes. 

This recipe was a favorite of Mina Edison (Thomas Edison’s wife).  It was taken from Evelyn Horne’s  private collection

Mrs. Edison’s Favorite Lemon Pie

• 3 eggs
• 1 c granulated sugar
• 1 lemon, juice and grated rind
• 3 T boiling water

 First, make pie shell and bake until crisp.  Have ready a double boiler and a medium-size earthenware bowl.  Separate eggs.  Place whites in a bowl.  Put yolks in double boiler and beat to a cream.

Add 1/2 cup sugar, lemon juice, grated rind and and boiling water to beaten yolk mixture.  Stir with a wooden spoon and place on fire.  Cook until quite thick, stirring well.

Beat egg whites slowly until stiff, gradually add 1/2 cup sugar, beating constantly.  Add gradually to this, hot mixture from double boiler, stirring continuously.  When thoroughly blended, fill pie shell and brown in hot oven until a light brown.  Cut with a wet, hot knife. 

This pie was served at the Koreshan Rustic Tea House.  This recipe was in the cookbook, “Chautaugua Recipes,”collected by the Chautauqua Bird and Tree Club of Chautauqua, NY, in 1934, Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, President.