Cookery for little girls

Make crust as directed for apple dumplings, turn on to a floured board, cut out with a biscuit cutter and bake twenty minutes in a hot oven. On removing, break each biscuit in half, butter, place the lower piece in a saucer, cover with sweetened crushed berries, put on the top half, and pour the crushed berries over all. Or, if preferred for a nice company dessert, drop a big spoonful of whipped cream on top of each biscuit, and stick a fine whole berry in the center. PRUNE WHIP Soak half a pound of prunes over night, then stew half an hour and sweeten with half a cupful of sugar. When cool, cut in small pieces or put through the colander, and stir in to the stiffly beaten whites of five eggs, with half a cupful of granulated sugar. Pour into a buttered pudding dish, bake half an hour in a slow oven, and serve at once, before it begins to go down, with thick cream. LEMON PIE Make paste as directed before, line a deep pie pan, prick the bottom to keep from blistering, and bake in a hot oven about ten minutes. Remove and fill immediately with the following preparations : A FEW MORE DESSERTS Mix three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch with one cup of sugar, add two-thirds of a cup of boiling water, and one teaspoonful of butter, and cook five minutes, stirring all the time. Then pour on to the beaten yolks of two eggs, flavor with the strained juice and grated rind of one lemon, and fill the shell. Bake until the crust is brown, then cover with the meringue, and set back long enough to color lightly. MERINGUE Beat two whites very stiff, stir in slowly half a cupful of powdered sugar, and spread on with a knife or apply through a pastry tube. It will take some time to stir in the sugar slowly enough, but it must be well mixed, then baked until a delicate brown. APPLE PIE Line a pie tin with the crust, fill with sliced sour apples, sprinkle thickly with sugar, flavor with nutmeg, cover with the crust, making an opening in the center to emit the steam, press closely together and trim around the edge, and bake in a moderate oven about three-quarters of an hour. Apple Dumplings 149 Fritters 68 Jelly 134 Pie 151 Sauce 120 Pie 151 Tapioca 104 Baked 4 Apples, Baked 4 Asparagus 57 Soup 27 Bacon and Eggs 11 Baked Beans 56 Baked Ham 39 Baking Preparations ... 81 Banana Fritters 68 Bar-Ie-Duc 16-134 Beans, Baked 56 Dried Lima 55 Fresh Lima 59 String 59 Wax 59 Beef, Dried 42 Hash 41 Roast 44 Steak 40 Stew, Brown 39 Beets 60 Beverages, Cocoa 142 Coffee 142 Fruit Syrup 144 Grape Juice 143 Lemonade 143 Tea 141 Biscuit. Baking Powder 3 Light 94 Blue Fish 33 Bread 93 Pudding 145 Brown Beef Stew 39 Brown Betty 146 Cabbage, Boiled 55 Salad 21 Cake, Chocolate 91 Citron 90 Devil's Food 91 Directions for Making 84 Ginger Bread 87 Ginger Cookies 86 Gold 90 Nut 91 Spice 87 Sponge 147 Tea 82 White 88 Candies. Chocolate Creams 128 Cream Taffy 127 Fudge (Chocolate). 129 Fudge (Maple) ...127 Molasses Taffv 129 Nut Candy 125 Stuffed Dates 130 Canned Fruit. Berries. 133 Cherries 133 Currants 134 Peaches 131 Pears 131 Plums 133 Carrots 53