Yum Yum Plate Pie
Cream together 2 oz. brown sugar and 3 oz. butter. Stir in thoroughly 2 egg yolks. Add 2/3 cup of plain flour plus 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder and 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence. Mix all ingredients well together.
Butter the heat-resistant pie plate(*) well.
With a wooden spoon press down and flatten the flour mixture over the base of the plate before covering the top with 2 oz. of walnut halves and 2 oz. chopped glace (or candied) cherries. Beat the whites of the eggs until stiff. Fold in 4 tablespoons of fine sugar and spread this over the cherries and nuts. Bake in moderate oven at 350 degrees F. for 30 minutes until top is brown.
1 cup = 8 fluid oz.
(*) Note: pie plate should be 8 1/2 inches in diameter & 1/2 inch deep
Recipe from text printed on "Epicure - Oven To Tableware" plate
T.G Green Ltd, Gresley, Made in England