Efficiency in home-making and first-aid to good cooking

Warm the milk, add the rice, butter, grated rind of lemon (having washed and wiped it first), the granulated sugar, and salt. Stir thoroughly ; when not too hot stir in the beaten yolks of eggs. Beat whites to stiff froth with the powdered sugar, add the lemon juice, pour pudding into buttered baking dish, spread the whites of eggs on top and bake in a slow oven 30 minutes. BREAD PUDDING No. 2. Make custard as for baked custard, pour in a baking dish; take slices of bread %-inch thick — stale bread will do — butter on one side and fit entirely over top of custard, with butter side up. Stand baking dish in another dish filled with hot water and bake in moderate oven until custard is firm and the bread nicely browned. STEAMED GRAHAM PUDDING. y2 cup buttermilk. y2 heaping teaspoon sal- 1 cup molasses. eratus (soda). 1 cup graham flour. y2 heaping teaspoon ciny2 cup white flour. namon. y2 heaping teaspoon of cloves. Sift dry ingredients together and add milk and molasses ; steam 2 hours in 1 pound baking powder cans filled half full, and set in kettle of boiling water; boil steadily 2 hours without taking covers from cans, or if sweet milk is used y2 cup New Orleans molasses, 1 cup sweet milk, \y2 cups graham flour, spices and soda as above. Adding the milk and molasses, to soda, flour and spices sifted together. Steam as above. Serve hot with sauce. First Aid to Good Cooking 147 SAUCE. 1 cup brown sugar. 1 good teaspoon corn y2 cup butter — cream to- starch or 2 flour. gether. 1 pint boiling water. Flavor with nutmeg; cook until clear or sufficiently thick. JUNKET. 1 quart fresh milk. Y\ teaspoon salt. 4 tablespoons sugar. 1 tablespoon vanilla. 1 junket tablet. Dissolve the tablet in one tablespoon cold water. While it is getting soft heat the milk luke-warm — neither hot nor cold— stirring in the sugar and salt. Remove from the fire and pour in the dissolved tablet, give one stir and pour quickly into small junket glasses. Do not jar or move it for 10 minutes. When it hardens set away to cool. Sometimes put tiny cubes of preserved ginger on top. COFFEE JUNKET. Coffee junket is delicious made as above; only use thin cream instead of milk and flavor with about four tablespoons of very strong coffee. Serve very cold. CARAMEL JUNKET. 2 cups of milk. 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. 1/3 cup of sugar. Nut meats ground in meat 1/3 cup of boiling water. grinder. 1 junket tablet. Whipped cream, flavored 1 pinch of salt. and sweetened. Heat milk until luke warm. Put sugar in stew pan over fire and stir until light brown, add the boiling water slowly, cook until reduced to 1/3 cup. Cool and add milk ■slowly to syrup. Pulverize junket tablet in cup, with wooden-handled knife, add to mixture with salt and 148 First Aid to Good Cooking vanilla. Turn in small cups to set. Leave in warm room until it has set, being careful not to jar for a little while. When set, put in refrigerator to chill. Turn out on individual plates, cover with whipped cream, and sprinkle with chopped nuts. BAKED CUSTARD. 3 cups milk. 6 tablespoons sugar. 2 eggs. A little nutmeg. Beat the eggs lightly add the sugar, salt and nutmeg ; pour into the milk ; see that the sugar is dissolved ; pour into baking dish or into small custard cups ; set in a pan of hot water; bake in a very slow oven. BOILED CUSTARD.