365 desserts

Line one pie dish with an under crust and bake. Make an orange or lemon jelly from gelatine. When the crust is cool fill with white grapes ; when the jelly is stiff pour it among and over the grapes, stand aside until perfectly cold and it is ready to serve. — From "Table Talk," Philadelphia. 9. — Delicate Pudding. One cup water, 1 cup fruit juice, 3 tablespoonfuls cornstarch, 1 salt spoonful salt, sugar to taste, 3 eggs. Boil the water and fruit juice (orange, lemon or canned cherries, quince or apricot). Wet the cornstarch in a little cold water, stir into the boiling syrup and cook 10 minutes. Add salt and sugar to taste ; the quantity depending upon the fruit. Beat the whites of the eggs till foamy, and stir into the starch. Turn at once into a mould. Serve cold with boiled custard sauce made with the yolks of the eggs. — Permission of Mrs. M. J. Lincoln. 10. — Norfolk Cream. Line a mould with 1 pound of candied plums, having first removed the stones, and January. spread the plums out as thin as possible. Make the plain Bavarian cream, and when thick enough to drop, take out 3/4 and color with cochineal ; add ½ cup of candied cherries cut in halves. Put a layer of the white cream next the plums, and fill the centre with the pink. When ready to serve loosen edges with a knife and invert carefully. Serve with whipped cream. — Permission of Mrs. M. J. Lincoln. ii. — Paradise Pudding. Three eggs, ¾ pound bread crumbs, 3 apples, currants, 1 teaspoonful extract lemon, nutmeg, salt. Mince the apples, beat the eggs, and stir them into the bread crumbs and other ingredients. Rub the currants in a small quantity of flour before they are put into the mixture. Boil 1 hour and a half. To be eaten hot with sauce. 12. — Lemon Cream Pudding. Beat the yolks of 4 eggs with 4 tablespoonfuls of sugar, the juice and rind of a large lemon, and 2 tablespoonfuls of hot water; simmer until it thickens; take from the fire and stir in the whites of 4 eggs beaten stiff, January* with 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar ; turn into a glass dish and serve icy cold. — From " Table Talk," Philadelphia. 13.— Polish Tarlets. Have ready some little patty pans greased, also an egg beaten, ¾ of a cupful of milk. Sweeten and stir well, then take ¾ of a pound of lard and ¾ of a pound of flour. Mix flour with a pinch of salt and moisten with a very little water. Roll out thin. Take ¾ of the lard and spread, sprinkle slightly with flour ; roll up and out again 4 times, using lard and flour each time. Line the patty tins and pour in a little milk and egg mixture. Bake very quickly, when taken from the oven, with a brush, glace with 1/4 of the white of an egg and place tiny pieces of jelly in each. Be very speedy in making these. 14. — Moonshine Pie. Add 2 even tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar to 1 cup of thick sweet cream and stand aside to get very cold, but not frozen. Pour the cream into the glass, add the white of an egg and with No. 1 Keystone egg January. beater beat slowly to a froth. Bake the crusts ; fill with the cream, dot over with jelly or preserved strawberries. — From " Table Talk," Philadelphia. 15. — Pommes Beurries.