Healthful cookery

^Filled Bananas. — Remove a section of the peel from large ripe bananas; then lift out the pulp so as to leave the shell. Crush raspberries slightly, and sweeten to taste; add a few drops of lemon juice. Desserts Sugar may be omitted, and Malted Nuts used instead. Fill the shells, and serve on a dish garnished with any appropriate leaves, such as lettuce, grapeleaves, or pineapple-tops. Baked Apples with Meltose. — Bake some equalsized Northern Spies or other tart apples until tender. Serve hot or cold in individual dishes, with Meltose prepared in the following manner: Whip a cupful of Meltose with an egg-whip until white and creamy, then add two or three drops of vanilla extract, and pour over the apples as dressing. * Apple Snow. — To the whites of three eggs, beaten stiff, add three teaspoonfuls of powdered sugar and the grated pulp of three large apples. Beat until stiff. Serve in glasses with a candied cherry in each glass. Grape Apple. — Peel medium-sized apples, removing the core. Place in a baking-dish in rows, fill the cavity where the core has been removed with sugar, and pour grape juice over the apples to cover one third of the apple, place in oven, and bake until nicely colored. Cranberry or other fruit apples are made the same, using the different juices. Citron, chopped fine, or grated lemon-rind with sugar may be used to fill the center of the fruit, which may then be baked until tender. Healthful Cookery Almond Dates. — Wash, and remove the seeds of the dates. Replace with roasted almonds or any other kind of nuts. Roll in powdered sugar. *Nut and Granola Figs. — Mix thoroughly equal quantities of Granola, fig pulp, and hickory, pecan, or English walnut meal with two thirds of a part of water (a trifle of salt may be used). Shape like puffed figs, and serve in place of confections at dinner. One-half part of cocoanut may be used instead of the other meals. Dates or raisins may be used instead of figs. *Fruit Meringues. — Remove the soft part of freshly made meringues, and fill the cavities with Meltose which has been beaten until a creamy white. Place in the center one large raspberry or a pitted cherry. ^Cranberry Foam. — One quart of cranberries, cook in the usual manner, put through a colander, sweeten to suit the taste, and pour over it the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs. Granose with Strawberry Snow. — 2 eggs (whites only), 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, l/2 cup strawberries, y2 cup Granose. Add a pinch of salt to the whites of two eggs, and beat until very stiff, then add two tablespoonfuls of sugar and one-half cup of strawberries that Desserts 22/ have been cut into quarters. Fold lightly into the mixture one-half cup of well-toasted Granose Flakes, and serve at once in sherbet-cups. *Peach Cobbler. — Fill a pudding-dish half full of quartered peaches, add sugar to sweeten. Cover this with a crust made of cream and Granola or a shortened pie-crust. Bake slowly, and serve with whipped cream. CAKES — RECIPES Sponge Cake. — 6 eggs, i cup sugar, i cup flour, juice of a half lemon, a little of the grated rind.