Easy as Pie: For Beginners and Experts

Recipe booklets and pamphlets were very popular in the first half of the 20th century and were given away as a premium to help cooks learn to use products (largely foodstuffs and appliances) to best advantage. Given that the recipes carried the brand, justified the purchase, and, if successful, encouraged repeat use of the product, great effort was made to make the best and tastiest recipes possible. 
 
Thus recipe pamphlets contain some wonderful recipes. Pies seem somehow to be a quin…