365 desserts

Soak one cup of pearl tapioca over night, in the morning boil in water until it clears, adding 1 cup of sugar and a little salt. Have a ripe pineapple chopped (not too fine) and turn the tapioca and sugar over it while boiling hot, stir and turn into a mould to cool. To be eaten with sugar and cream. AUGUST. i. — Banana Pudding. Cut sponge cake in slices, and in a glass dish, put alternate layers of cake and slices of banana. Make a . soft custard, flavor with a little wine, and pour over it. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth and heap over the whole. 2. — Watermelon with Sherry. Take a ripe watermelon and cut out a deep plug. Through this pour gently and slowly i pt. (or more if the melon will hold it) of sherry, put in the plug and put it on the ice for 5 or 6 hrs. or until the sherry has permeated the melon. 3. — Kiss Pudding. Put 1 pt. of milk into a double boiler to heat. Moisten 4 even tablespoonfuls of cornstarch in a little cold milk. Then stir it into the hot milk and cook 2 minutes ; add a half cup of sugar, the well-beaten yolks of 4 eggs August. and 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. Pour into a pudding-pan and sprinkle with a layer of grated cocoanut. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff dry froth ; add 2 tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar ; mix lightly and heap over the pudding. Put in the oven a moment to brown. Watch carefully as it takes but an instant to burn. Serve cold. — From " Table Talk," Philadelphia. 4. — Pineapple Souffle Frozen. Separate 6 eggs ; beat the yolks until creamy. Pare and grate 2 medium pineapples ; the pulp must measure 1 pt. Add to this the juice of 1 lemon and 1 It), of granulated sugar ; stir until the sugar is thoroughly dissolved. Cover ^ box of gelatine with )/, cup of cold water and allow it to soak while the pineapple is being prepared; add the beaten yolks to the pineapple; mix carefully. Put the gelatine over a kettle of hot water and when thoroughly dissolved, add it to the pineapple. Turn the pineapple into a tin basin and stand this in a pan of cracked ice; stir carefully until the mixture begins to thicken; then add hastily 1 pt. of cream, thoroughly whipped, turn this into a mould, August* put on the lid ; bind the seam with a piece of muslin dipped in butter or melted suet, and pack the mould in salt and ice; let it stand 2 hours. This should be frozen at least i inch on the outside j the centre soft. — "Table Talk." 5. — Iced Peaches. Pare the peaches and mash them, add 1 pt. of water, and y2 lb. of sugar, stir until sugar is dissolved, then turn into a small freezer, pack with coarse salt and ice, turn until frozen and serve at once. — From " Table Talk," Philadelphia. 6. — Gold and Silver Pudding. One qt. of milk, 1 cup of sugar, 6 eggs, leaving out the whites of 4 ; scald the milk ; add sugar and dissolve cornstarch, and 1 wine-glass of sherry ; bake for y2 an hour, when cold cover with a frosting made of the whites of 4 eggs, a cup of pulverized sugar, add flavoring, brown in a hot oven. 7. — Tapioca Cream. Cover three tablespoonfuls of tapioca with cold water, and soak for 3 hours. Drain and put in the farina boiler with 1 qt. of milk. August*