Name: Vintage Recipe Project: Strawberry Sponge Pie
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 8 Servings
Cuisine: Pennsylvania Dutch
Ingredients: 1 unbaked 9-inch pie shell; 1 cup sugar; 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour; 1-quart strawberries (I used 4 cups sliced strawberries); 2 eggs, separated; 1/2 cup milk

Vintage Recipe: Strawberry Sponge Pie

This old fashioned Pennsylvania Dutch Strawberry Sponge Pie recipe is light, airy and a little crunchy from the meringue type “sponge” filling.

The Vintage Recipe Project

One of the reasons I started the Vintage Recipe Project was because I longed for my own family recipes handed down from generation to generation.

Sadly my mother and grandmother never handed any recipes down to me and the ones I remember my Nanny cooking were things like oxtail soup, neck bones, and sauerkraut to name just a few.

Well, I couldn’t pay my family enough to eat those types of meals.

My grandmother of course came from a different era than myself, my family or probably even you.

People back in those days ate what they grew up eating or what they could afford to buy.

Mostly they ate things they were used to eating meals that their parents cooked from the old country. My grandmother was a first-generation American born to parents who immigrated from Germany in the late 1800s.

Since I don’t have family recipes from my own family I collect vintage cookbooks.

Old Family Recipes

I collect other people’s family recipes.

Recently my mother-in-law handed down to me some of her mother’s and her grandmother’s cookbooks. I will cherish these cookbooks as part of my children’s heritage.

Some of the recipes you can find on my Old Fashioned Recipes page. As time allows I will be making other recipes from those old family cookbook. Some of the old fashioned recipes I share will come from those old books from my mother-in-laws family. Most of them are church cookbooks.

Along with the recipes I will be sharing the names of the women who shared their recipes with the church they attended.

This is one of those recipes. My MIL’s family came from the Dover, Ohio area. So if your family hails from that part of the country you might want to keep an eye on my Vintage Recipe Project.

You never know when one of your ancestor’s recipes might show up on my blog.

Old Church Cookbook recipes

My hope is that I might, one day connect a family member with a family recipe that has been lost through time.

If you think it’s possible that a family member might be listed in these cookbooks from Dover Ohio drop me an email with your family members name and I will look through the books for your family members name.

Strawberry Sponge Pie recipe was submitted to the Good Things To Eat Vintage Cook Book, possibly from the Dover Ohio area pre-1950 by Mrs. George Lohrman

I’m not sure if this is actually church cookbook because the front and back cover has been lost.

But since the rest of the cookbooks from my husband’s grandmother and great grandmother are church cookbooks it is safe to assume that this one is also.

How To Make Strawberry Sponge Pie Recipe

Ingredients

1 unbaked pie shell, thawed if frozen
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 quart of strawberries (I used about 4 cups sliced strawberries)
2 eggs, separated
1/2 cup whole milk

This recipe makes enough filling for one nine-inch pie crust. There will be enough filling left over to fill 4 small ramekins.

See my Musing From The Vintage Recipe Project post here for more information about the vintage recipes.

Since the pie pan I used was a 9-inch pan you may be able to fill 2 – 8-inch pie crusts. I hate waste so I filled the ramekins also.

Or you may just want to fill individual ramekins.

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 F.degrees.
If making a homemade pie crust prepare the pie crust before beginning and place the pie plate on a cookie sheet in the refrigerator to keep chilled until needed.
Rinse the strawberries with cold water. Hull the strawberries and slice. In a large bowl mix the strawberries with the sugar, and flour. Toss to evenly coat the strawberries.
In a separate bowl beat the egg yolks with a fork and add the milk, beating to combine. Pour the egg mixture over the strawberries and gently fold to combine.
Set the bowl aside.
In a medium bowl with a hand mixer beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
Fold the stiffly beaten egg whites into the strawberry mixture until combined.
Carefully pour the pie filling into the pie crust. If you have filling leftover after the pie crust is filled you may bake the remaining filling in ramekins with the pie.
Bake for 45 minutes or until the center is no longer jiggly.
Remove the baked pie from the oven and allow to cool completely before serving.
Makes 8 servings.

Strawberry Sponge Pie Ingredients

Vintage Strawberry Sponge Pie

The pie had a very nice texture and flavor. The beaten egg whites floated to the top and gave the top of the pie a nice crisp meringue texture. Think marbled meringue. I say marbled because the strawberries poked through the meringue on the top of the pie. The juices didn’t run all over the plate when I sliced it which I liked very much.

I think although the recipe is for a strawberry pie that you could substitute peaches or use any other type of berries you might have.

This recipe is very easy to throw together and if you used a packaged pie crust instead of homemade like I did it would only take about 15 minutes to throw together.

As I was looking through a new vintage cookbook circa 1950 that I just bought last week I came across two more “sponge” pie recipes.

One was named lemon sponge pie, the other was called Lemon Cake-Top Pudding

They both sound like the same recipe ..almost so I may have to try them out to compare them.

Thanks for stopping by! I really appreciate all the comments I have been getting on my Vintage Recipe Project posts and want to say thank you for leaving such nice comments!

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