The royal baker and pastry cook

flour, thoroughly mix with it 3 teaspoons of Royal Baking Powder and a small teaspoon salt; rub in a piece of butter or lard the size of an egg, and then add 1 medium potato, grated in the flour; after the butter is well mixed, stir in milk and knead to the consistency of soft biscuit-dough ; break off pieces of dough large enough to close over 4 quarters of an apple (or other fruit as desired) without rolling, and lay in an earthen dish and steam until the fruit is tender. Serve with brandy sauce. Apple Dumplings, 2. — Paste, 2; 6 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced, 1 cup sugar. Line 6 cups, well greased, with the paste rolled out thin, wet edges, fill with apples, some of the sugar, cover with more paste; put in shallow stewpan, large enough to contain them, with boiling water to reach half-way up the cups ; steam thus 45 minutes ; turn out on dish, sift sugar over them ; serve with spice sauce. Apple Dumplings, 3. — Paste, 3; 8 apples, peeled and cored, 1 cup sugar. Roll out the paste thin, cut into 8 squares of 4 inches, lay on each an apple with sugar in aperture made by removing core, wet four corners of paste, and bring them to top of apple and fasten ; sift sugar over them ; lay on baking-sheet and bake in hot oven 25 minutes ; serve with hard sauce. Berry Dumplings. — Use berries of any kind carefully picked, hulled or prepared, and make as for apple dumplings, putting 1 or 2 tablespoons of berries in each dumpling. English Dumpling.— 1 pint flour, 1 cup finely chopped suet, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Mix and sift flour, salt, and baking powder. Add suet ; mix to firm dough with ice-water. Knead for 2 minutes ; roli out inch thick. Put a floured cloth over a bowl ; on it spread the crust. Fill with sliced apples mixed with sugar and a little powdered cinnamon. Draw up crust and cloth so as to completely cover apples ; tie cloth, allowing a little room to swell. Drop in kettle of rapidly boiling water, with trivet at bottom to prevent scorching. Keep at a rapid boil for 2 hours. If water stops boiling the dumpling will be heavy. Or place in steamer and steam 3 hours. Serve hot with cream and sugar or a liquid sauce. Farina Dumplings. — 1 quart milk, 10 ounces farina, 3 eggs, 114 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, a tablespoon fresh butter, 14 pound flour. Bring milk to a boil, stir in farina, and boil till well done, continually stirring. After cooling, stir in the melted butter and eggs previously beaten up, and last add flour sifted with baking powder and salt. Drop with tablespoon into boiling water, well salted ; boil about 15 minutes till they rise ; take out with skimmer and serve with fruit sauce. Peach Dumplings. — Proceed as directed for apple dumplings, 1. Peach Dumplings, 2. — Bring 1 cup water, 2 tablespoons butter, to boiling point ; turn in quickly 1 cup dry flour ; stir till mixture draws away from sides of pan. Take from fire and cool. Work in 4 eggs, % cup flour mixed with 1/4 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, more flour if necessary to make a soft dough. Pat out in a cake, cut in rounds with a saucer. On each place a pared, unpitted peach. Draw dough round to cover the fruit. Place in greased pan, brush with milk, and bake 30 minutes in moderate oven. Serve with clear sauce.