The galley guide

Comes in the form of tablets with complete directions on the container. An easy, quick dessert. 106 — Rice Pudding. y2 cup rice 2 cups (level) milk 2 cups (level) boiling water y. cup sugar y2 teaspoon salt I teaspoon nutmeg, grated 1 cup (level) chopped raisins Wash the rice, mix all ingredients together and pour into greased baking dish. Bake slowly for three hours, stirring occasionally during first hour to prevent rice and raisins from settling. 107 — Pies. To make the pastry for any variety of pie proceed as follows : 3 cups pastry flour 1 teaspoon sugar y2 teaspoon salt i*4 cups butter 1 tablespoon lemon juice ice water Thoroughly mix flour, sugar and salt ; add the butter and rub in with finger tips or chop with a knife in each hand until mixture is like a fine meal in consistency; add lemon juice and enough water (about two-thirds of a cup) to form a stiff paste. Roll out on a floured board with a rolling pin in a thin sheet and fold in four layers. Repeat this rolling and folding three times. Place on ice until chilled. When ready to bake roll the paste to Y\ in. thick and line a tin pie plate with it. Trim the edges with a knife and press them firmly. Roll out paste for top crust y2 in. larger than diameter of plate and cut a few small gashes in it. Fill the lined plate with the pie mixture to be used, place the paste for top crust on top, turning the edge under the lower crust. Bake for about 40 minutes in an oven which is very hot for the first 15 minutes; the heat should be reduced for the remainder of the time. The amounts given make two pies. Pie Fillings. Sliced Apples (each pie). 334 cups pared and sliced apples y2 cup sugar 34 teaspoon salt Yz teaspoon nutmeg or cinnamon Place apples in lower crust plate ; mix sugar, salt and seasoning and cover apples. Put top crust paste in place and bake as directed above. Blueberry. 234 cups blueberries Yz cup sugar 2*4 tablespoons flour i teaspoon butter Proceed as with apple filling, adding the flour and sugar mixed and dotting the butter over the top before top crust paste is put in place. Cherry. Follow recipe for Blueberry Pie, using stoned cherries in place of blueberries and using 34 CUP more sugar. Prune. Same as Cherry Pie, using stoned prunes cut in quarters, 34 cup sugar, i tablespoon flour and the grated rind of one orange (no butter). 108 — Baked Apples. Wipe, core and pare as many apples as required. Put in a baking dish and fill cavities in apples with sugar and a little cinnamon. Use about *4 cup sugar, Y teaspoonful cinnamon to 8 apples. Cover bottom of baking dish with boiling water and bake in a hot oven until apples are soft. Spoon the syrup in the baking dish over the apples frequently while cooking. 109 — Baked Bananas. Remove skins from six bananas and cut in halves, lengthwise. Put in a shallow pan. Mix 2 tablespoons melted butter, cup sugar and 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Pour half the mixture over the bananas and bake 20 minutes in a slow oven, spooning the remaining half of the mixture over the bananas during the baking. EGGS 201 — Eggs and Rice.