365 desserts

rub the bread until the lumps are well broken ; pound the spice to powder, cut the citron into thin shreds ; mix all the ingredients well together adding the sugar ; beat the eggs to a stiff froth, and as they are beaten drop into them the almond ; stir these into the dry ingredients, mix well, and add the brandy ; tie in a buttered cloth or mould. Steam or boil 8 hours. 5. — Alice Pudding. One-half pound fresh butter, y2 pound powdered sugar, y2 lb. flour, % pound currants, 4 eggs, two teaspoonfuls extract of lemon, or any other preferred. Beat the batter to a thick cream, strew in by degrees the sugar, and mix both well together; then dredge the flour in gradually ; add the currants, and moisten with the eggs which should be well beaten. When all the ingredients are well stirred and mixed, butter a mould that will hold the mixture exactly, tie down with a cloth, put the pudding in boiling water and boil five hours. When turned out, sprinkle with a little powdered sugar, and serve with sweet sauce. October. 6. — Peach Meringue. Canned peaches. Pour over them an icing of the beaten whites of 6 eggs, and 6 tablespoonfuls of sugar. Brown slightly in the oven. Serve with custard made from the yolks of the eggs. 7.— Indian Corn and Tapioca Pudding. One quart sweet milk, 4 tablespoonfuls yellow corn meal, 1 cup molasses, 2 tablespoonfuls tapioca, 1 egg, a little salt. Scald milk with tapioca, (reserving 1 cup of the milk cold). When the tapioca is swollen add meal and molasses stirred carefully together to avoid lumps. Set away to cool before adding the egg, well beaten, and the salt. Bake in slow oven 2 hours, and then add the reserved cup of cold milk. Do not stir in the cold milk. Bake another hour — in all three hours — in a slow oven. — From "Table Talk," Philadelphia. 8. — Fruit Croquettes. Soak 1/4 baker's 5 cent loaf freed from crust in a pt. of milk for 15 minutes, then stir it over the fire until it boils ; take from the fire, add the yolks of 2 eggs, then cook October* just a moment ; add 1/4 teaspoonful of salt, 2 tablespoon fuls of sugar, a grating of nutmeg, i cupful of raisins, currants and citron mixed and chopped fine, turn this mixture out to cool, form into cone-shaped croquettes, dip in egg, then in bread crumbs, and fry in smoking hot fat. — From ''Table Talk," Philadelphia. 9. — Orange Roley-Poley. Make a light paste as for apple dumpling, roll in an oblong sheet, and lay sweet orange (peeled, sliced and seeded) over it. Sprinkle with white sugar ; scatter a teaspoonful or 2 of the grated yellow peel over it all and roll up closely, folding down the end to secure the syrup. Boil in a pudding cloth 1 hour and a half. Eat with lemon sauce. — From "Common Sense in the Household," by Marion Harland, Copyright 1880, 1892 by Charles Scribner's Sons. 10. — Rum Omelet. Beat 4 eggs just enough to mix them, add 4 tablespoonfuls of warm water and a piece of butter the size of a walnut. Put a tablespoonful of butter in a frying-pan, when melted and hot, turn in the eggs. Shake October.