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Grapefruit Proper Preparation

I’m a lover of Grapefruit. And I know enough to know that there is a right way and a wrong way to prepare a grapefruit.  I like to think of it as the fine art of Grapefruiting.  So you can imagine my delight when I found that Good Housekeeping’s Book of Good Meals, 1929, had a section dedicated to proper Grapefruit preparation.  I had to share.  Here are some tips for preparing Grapefruit.

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Baking Temperatures for Pies and Pastries

Here you’ll find temperatures in Fahrenheit and their Celsius conversions as well as cook times for 11 types of pies/shells:

- Mirangue pies
- Apple or any double-crust pie with raw filling
- Custard, Pumpkin, or open pies
- Open cross-cut and “fruit deep” pies
- Double crust pie with pre-cooked filling
- Open pies with soufflé filling
- Pastry straws
- Pie shells
- Puff pastry
- Tart shells
- Turnovers.

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