Cooking With Diana

When dining at home she was no slouch either. Herewith is Mrs Vreeland's recipe for caviar pie for 6 to 8 persons:

CAVIAR PIE

Caviar
Sour cream
8 to 10 hard-boiled eggs
3/4 bar of butter, melted

Pass hard-boiled eggs through a strainer so they are absolutely mashed. Add melted butter. Put in Pyrex round dish or tart pan. Cover with layer of sour cream. Put in freezer for 1 hour. Take out, spread caviar thinly over. Put at bottom of icebox. Should be cold, not frozen. Cut like a pie. Decorate if wanted.

Diana Vreeland's caviar pie, photographed by Oi-Cheong Lee, The Photographic Studio, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.