Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

Boil the beef or tongue until perfectly tender, clear it from the bones, chop it fine, add an equal weight of chopped tart apple, a little butter or fine suet, moisten with cider, wine or brandy, sweeten with sugar and a little molasses, and add mace, cinnamon, cloves and salt to suit the taste ; also raisins, citron and currants. Make the pies on shallow plates, with an opening in the upper crust, and bake for i hour in a slow oven. MOCK MINCE OR CRACKER PIE FOR DYSPEPTICS. Take 8 good-sized crackers and roll them fine. Water i cup. Molasses i cup. Brown sugar i cup. Vinegar ^ cup. Butter y^ cup. Raisins nicely chopped 2 cups. Cinnamon finely ground i small tea-spoonfuL Alspice finely ground i small tea-spoonful. Cloves finely ground i small tea-spoonful. Make 3 pies. Before putting on the upper crust wet around the outer edge of the bottom one with the beaten white of an egg, which by pinching cements the two crusts together, preventing the juice from flowing out. This plan will hold good with any juicy pie. MOCK MINCE PIE WITH EGGS. There may be some who would like to use eggs as follows: Crackers powdered fine 6. Sugar I cup. Molasses i cup. Vinegar one-half cup. Butter one-half cup. Raisins chopped fine one-half pound. Eggs 2 beaten in the place of water. Spice to taste. ORANGE PIE. For I pie take 3 oranges, peel and slice. The crust having been put upon the plate, sprinkle over the crust i small cup of sugar, then place the sliced oranges upon the sugar and add a very little water, to make it sufficiently juicy; put on a top crust as directed in Mock Mince, above, and bake to a nice brown. This will be found to be a very nice pie and not very expensive. PUMPKIN PIE. Choose the very best pumpkins that can be found, take out the seeds, cut off the rind and then cut the pumpkin in thin narrow strips or bits, stew over a moderate fire, with a little water, just enough to keep it from burning, until soft. When sufficiently cooled, rub through a sieve, sweeten with sugar; the sugar and eggs should be beaten together. The flavoring requires ginger, nutmeg, and salt. To i quart of pumpkin add i quart of milk and 4 eggs for ordinary richness. Heat the pumpkin scalding hot before putting it upon the crusts to bake; otherwise the crust will be soaked. Bake in a very hot oven. TART PIES. Stew the the apples, peaches or cranberries, and strain when soft, grate in lemon peel and add sugar to suit taste. To make the pies cut smooth, add a beaten egg for each pie. Make an under crust of pastry, put upon it the fruit, ornamented with a rim and narrow strips of pastry. As soon as the crust is done remove it from the oven. ALL-THE-YEAR-ROUND PUDDING. Line a basin with pie paste and spread on 3 table-spoonfuls of any fruit jam. Have beaten together bread crumbs 3 ounces, sugar 3 ounces, and butter 3 ounces ; the rind grated, and the juice of a small lemon. Add all to the jam and bake one-half an hour. To be eaten with any sweet sauce. CHARLOTTE PUDDING FOR DYSPEP- TICS.