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Take half the milk and put the tapioca in it to soak in a little pan set in a rather warm place for an hour or two. Boil the rest of the milk with the sugar and butter in it, put in the tapioca, stir up, pour into a buttered pan and bake half an hour. It is, of course, quite white. Serve with any pudding sauce. One egg or two yolks may be added if wished to have it richer. The eggs must not be boiled in the milk, but stirred in just before putting in the oven. 651— Broiled Sweetbreads, Maitre d'Hotel. It can generally be relied upon that only two-thirds, perhaps only half the people will order such a dish as this however good it may be. Prepare the sweetbreads by splitting in slices the flat way, dust with salt and pepper, press down in a plate of flour to coat well on both sides ; broil in the wire oyster broiler. Turn frequently and baste with a brush dipped in butter. -Red Raspberry Sauce for Puddings. Take half red raspberry juice or syrup and half water. 1 o one cup add half cup sugar with a heaping teaspoonful starch mixed in it drv. Simmer over the fire until thick and clear. Good sauce for any white pudding like the preceding. 654— White Mountain Ice Cream. I quart cream. I pint milk. 1 cup sugar. 2 large tablespoons starch. Boil the milk and sugar and thicken with the starch. Add the cream cold. Flavor, strain and freeze. 655— Chocolate Cake without Eggs. 1 small cup sugar — 6 ounces. y^ cup butter — 4 ounces. 2 cups milk — a pint. 2 rounded teaspoons baking powder. 5 cups flour — ij^ pounds. 2 ounces chocolate. Warm the butter and stir it and the sugar together until well mixed, then add the milk and vanilla flavoring if you have it. Mix the powder in the flour and stir all together. Melt two ounces of common chocolate in a little pan by warming it with nothing added and beat it into the cake batter. Bake in shallow tins and frost over when done, with frosting made without eges, No. 635. 657 — Rusks without Eggs. Supper. Oatmeal and cracked wheat mush (3 cents.) Beefsteak (8 orders, i lb, and butter, 16 cents.) Corned beef stewed with potatoes (^ lb, meat, etc., 6 orders, 7 cents.) Codfish in cream (4 orders, 3 cents.) Cold meats (4 orders, charged dinner.) Potatoes (from dinner, baked few, 2 cents.) Plain rusks (without eggs. No. 657 ; 20 rusks, 10 cents. Rolls and bread (n cents.) Raspberry tartlets and cake (paste trimmings and remainders from dmner, say, 10 cents.) Fresh raspberries (3 pints, 12 cents.) Batter cakes (no orders.) Butter 15, milk, cream, buttermilk 42, coffee, tea, sugar 16. Total, $1 47 ; 26 persons ; nearly 6 cents a plate. Take half your roll_ dough and work in sugar and butter, set it to rise again and at 4 o'clock make out in round balls or cut with a small biscuit cutter; butter between them when placing in the pan and brush over the tops; ^place near together but not crowded ; rise an hour or longer and bake in a slack oven about 20 minutes. The difficulty with most people's sweetened breads is that they are clammy like dough not sufficiently baked. There is no need of having them that way for all that is necessary to make them feathery light and dry, is the proper way of kneaaing fully explained for coffee cakes at _No. 262 and elsewhere; and then sufficient time to rise.