March. 5. — Moravian Apple Pie. Pare and core 6 even-sized apples carefully, so as not to break them ; place on the stove in a covered sauce pan, with 1 teaspoonful of lemon juice, a very little of the yellow of the peal, 1 cup sugar and enough water to cover the apples. Stew until tender and remove carefully that they may keep their shape ; line a pie dish with a thin crust of paste✪ Moravian Apple Pie, fill the bottom with peach or apple marmalade, put in the apples and fill the cavities with marma- lade ; put strips of crust across the top of the pie, and bake in a quick oven. Serve with cream. — From " Table Talk," Philadelphia. 6. — Graham Pudding. One and one-half cups graham flour, y^ cup of molasses, y^ cup of milk, 1 teaspoon- ful cream tartar, y^ teaspoonful soda✪ Graham Pudding, cinna- mon, cloves, salt, nutmeg, fruit. Steam 3 hours, serve hot. Sauce. — Whites of two eggs, 1 cup sugar beaten stiff; on this pour 1 cup of boiling milk. Just before serving add the juice of 1 lemon, serve cold. 7. — Snow Balls, No. 2. Have pieces cheese cloth, about 6 in. 33 March. square. Dust these thickly with flour. Have i for each ball required. Put i cup of rice into i qt. milk✪ Snow Balls, No. 2, cook it slowly in a double boiler, until the rice has absorbed the milk and all the grains are swollen. Then take 2 tablespoonfuls of the rice, put it in the centre of the cloth, tie tightly, so that the rice will be just the form of a ball. Stand this in the steamer, and steam for 15 minutes. Untie the cloths, and the rice should be in perfect balls, and as white as snow. — " Table Talk," Philadelphia. 8. — Burnt Cream. From 1 qt. of milk take enough to blend thoroughly ^ of a cup of flour, let the re- mainder of the milk come to a boil, and then pour it on the flour, stirring it well, when smooth turn it back into the sauce pan and let it boil until it thickens. Meantime in an- other pot, an iron one is best, let one cup of brown sugar melt and brown✪ Burnt Cream, letting it burn according to taste ; into this pour the boiling milk and flour, and let all boil well up to- gether, then pour into a mould. When cold serve with cream, or pour whipped cream around it. 34 March. 9.— Fruit Puddings— To Roll. Roll out ^ inch thick a paste made of suet chopped fine, flour, water and a little salt. Spread over it preserves of any small kind. Dust a little flour over it, roll up, wet and pinch the ends tight, and tie in a cloth which has been wet with cold water and floured✪ Fruit Puddings - To Roll. Steam one or two hours according to size. 10. — Lemon Frappe. Add 1 lb. sugar to 1 qt. of water; boil three minutes and skim. When cool, add the juice of 4 large lemons and the grated yellow rind of 2✪ Lemon Frappe ; turn into a freezer ; pack with salt and ice, allowing 1 qt. of salt to 10 lbs. of ice, turn the crank slowly and con- tinuously until the mixture is half frozen and looks like wet snow. — From "Table Talk," Philadelphia. 11. — Potato Rolls for Dessert. Put 2 cups of mashed potatoes in the Key- stone beater ; add ^ cup sugar, yolks of 2 eggs, tablespoonful of butter, y2 nutmeg grated✪ Potato Rolls for Dessert, yz teaspoonful cinnamon. Beat till 35 March.

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March. 5. — Moravian Apple Pie. Pare and core 6 even-sized apples carefully, so as not to break them ; place on the stove in a covered sauce pan, with 1 teaspoonful of lemon juice, a very little of the yellow of the peel, 1 cup sugar and enough water to cover the apples. Stew until tender and remove carefully that they may keep their shape ; line a pie dish with a thin crust of paste, fill the bottom with peach or apple marmalade, put in the apples and fill the cavities with marmalade ; put strips of crust across the top of the pie, and bake in a quick oven. Serve with cream. — From " Table Talk," Philadelphia. 6. — Graham Pudding. One and one-half cups graham flour, y^ cup of molasses, y^ cup of milk, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, y^ teaspoonful soda, cinnamon, cloves, salt, nutmeg, fruit. Steam 3 hours, serve hot. Sauce. — Whites of two eggs, 1 cup sugar beaten stiff; on this pour 1 cup of boiling milk. Just before serving add the juice of 1 lemon, serve cold. 7. — Snow Balls, No. 2. Have pieces cheese cloth, about 6 in. March. square. Dust these thickly with flour. Have 1 for each ball required. Put 1 cup of rice into 1 qt. milk, cook it slowly in a double boiler, until the rice has absorbed the milk and all the grains are swollen. Then take 2 tablespoonfuls of the rice, put it in the centre of the cloth, tie tightly, so that the rice will be just the form of a ball. Stand this in the steamer, and steam for 15 minutes. Untie the cloths, and the rice should be in perfect balls, and as white as snow. — " Table Talk," Philadelphia. 8. — Burnt Cream. From 1 qt. of milk take enough to blend thoroughly 1/4 of a cup of flour, let the remainder of the milk come to a boil, and then pour it on the flour, stirring it well, when smooth turn it back into the sauce pan and let it boil until it thickens. Meantime in another pot, an iron one is best, let one cup of brown sugar melt and brown, letting it burn according to taste ; into this pour the boiling milk and flour, and let all boil well up together, then pour into a mould. When cold serve with cream, or pour whipped cream around it. March. 9.— Fruit Puddings— To Roll. Roll out ^ inch thick a paste made of suet chopped fine, flour, water and a little salt. Spread over it preserves of any small kind. Dust a little flour over it, roll up, wet and pinch the ends tight, and tie in a cloth which has been wet with cold water and floured. Steam one or two hours according to size. 10. — Lemon Frappe. Add 1 lb. sugar to 1 qt. of water; boil three minutes and skim. When cool, add the juice of 4 large lemons and the grated yellow rind of 2 ; turn into a freezer ; pack with salt and ice, allowing 1 qt. of salt to 10 lbs. of ice, turn the crank slowly and continuously until the mixture is half frozen and looks like wet snow. — From "Table Talk," Philadelphia. 11. — Potato Rolls for Dessert. Put 2 cups of mashed potatoes in the Keystone beater ; add ^ cup sugar, yolks of 2 eggs, tablespoonful of butter, y2 nutmeg grated, yz teaspoonful cinnamon. Beat till March.

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