365 desserts

milk to make soft dough. Roll thin and line a deep pudding dish ; fill with apples that have been previously chopped very fine, and sprinkle with i cup brown sugar. Wet the edge with a little flour and water mixed ; put on an upper crust, press the edges together, make an opening with a sharp knife in the centre, and bake in a quick oven 30 minutes. Serve hot with sugar and cream. — "Table Talk." 25. — Lemon Washington Pie. One cupful sugar j 1 cupful flour ; 3 eggs ; y^ teaspoonful soda ; y2 teaspoonfui cream of tartar, a pinch of salt. Mix the sugar and yolks of the eggs well beaten ; stir in the soda and salt ; add the flour and cream of tartar, and last the whites of the eggs beaten stiff. Bake in 3 shallow tins. Spread between the cakes when done the following : Lemon mixture ; 1 y& cupfuls of cold water, 1 cupful of sugar, 1 dessertspoonful of butter. Boil all together and add ij4 tablespoonfuls of cornstarch rubbed smooth in cold water. When it thickens put in the yolks of 2 eggs well beaten with the juice and grated rind of 1 lemon. — Good Housekeeping. [illustration: October.] 26. — Ginger Cream. Make a custard with y cup of milk, 1 oz. sugar and yolks of 3 eggs. Stir in a double boiler till thick, let it cool, add y cup of syrup from preserved ginger, and 2 ounces of ginger cut up ; add % oz. gelatine melted in as little water as possible. Last of all y a pt. of cream whipped solid ; mix gently, pour into a mould and set on ice. 27. — Chocolate Whips. Scrape % of a cake of chocolate, and dissolve with 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar in y teacupful of boiling water ; add to ^ of a pt. of milk, y2 cupful of sugar, 3 tablespoonfuls of smooth cornstarch ; add to 1 y2 pts. of boiling milk with yolks of 5 eggs ; stir till it thickens ; add y2 of a saltspoonful of salt. Mould in cups ; when cold fill with whipped cream. — Good Housekeeping. t 28. — Anisette Punch. Make a syrup of 1 qt. of water and 1 lb. of sugar, and when cooked add 1 cup of lemon juice and y of a cup of orange; mix well, cool and freeze. When frozen hard add gradually y of a cup of rum, y of a cup of October. brandy and }£ of a cup of aniseed. Beat well, pack and cover the freezer and let stand 4 or 5 hours to ripen. Serve sponge cake with it. — " Table Talk." 29. — New England Indian Pudding. Two quarts milk, one cup meal, 1 cup molasses, x/2 cup sugar, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon or ginger, 2 eggs. Heat 1 qt. of milk, " milk-warm," then stir in slowly the meal, and keep stirring gently until it thickens, but does not quite boil. Remove from stove, and add molasses, sugar and spice. Then beat the eggs well and stir them in. Pour into the pudding dish, remove the spoon, and turn the second quart of milk in. Send immediately to the oven without mixing, and cook slowly 4 hours. — From "Table Talk," Philadelphia. 30. — Oranges Filled With Jelly. Cut a small, round piece of the skin from the stem end, with the finger loosen the pulp from the skin, and with the finger, between the skin and pulp, gradually loosen it entirely. Draw the pulp out through the opening, without breaking the skin. Throw the skins October.