Put into a double boiler one quart of
milk ; allow it to cook for thirty min-
utes; then add two tablespoonfuls of
sugar, a grating of nutmeg, and one cup
of cold boiled rice✪ Simple Rice Pudding ; turn this into a baking
pan, and bake in a quick oven thirty min-
utes. Serve cold. Raisins may be added
when it is put into the baking pan.
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Lemon Rice
Into one cup of cold boiled rice stir
one pint of milk ; beat the yolks of three
eggs with a half cup of sugar together
until light ; add to them the rice and
milk ; add the grated yellow rind and
the juice of one lemon✪ Lemon Rice. Turn this into
a baking pan; bake in a moderately
quick oven twenty to thirty minutes.
Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff
froth, add three tablespoonfuls of pow-
dered sugar, and beat again. Heap these
over the pudding, dust thickly with pow-
dered sugar ; return to the oven to slowly
brown ; serve cold.
Paradise Pudding
Pare, core and grate three apples.
Separate three eggs ; add to the yolks
four tablespoonfuls of sugar ; beat until
light ; add a grating of nutmeg and a
teaspoonful of lemon juice ; stir in a half
cup of cold boiled rice ; mix with this
quickly the apples, and beat well ; add a
half cup of milk✪ Paradise Pudding ; turn into a baking dish,
and bake for thirty minutes. Make a
meringue as in preceding recipe, from the
whites of the eggs ; heap it over the top.
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and brown. This pudding maybe served
warm or cold.
Compote of Pineapple
Throw a pint of boiling water over
one cup of cold boiled rice ; stir for a
moment ; drain, and stand at the oven
door. Have ready, picked apart, one
small pineapple ; add to it a half cup of
sugar✪ Compote of Pineapple; heat quickly, stirring constantly.
Arrange the rice in the centre of a round
dish, making it into a mound, flat on
top ; heap the pineapple neatly on this ;
pour over the syrup, and send at once
to the table. Small quantities of different
kinds of fruits that have been left over
may be blended and used in this way.
Monday Pudding
Cut bits of whole wheat bread into
dice. Use a half cup of any fruit that
may have been left over, prunes, raisins,
chopped dates or candied fruit. Grease
an ordinary melon mold ; put a layer of
the bread in the bottom, then a layer of
the fruit, and so continue until you have
tlie mold filled. Beat three eggs, without
separating, with four tablespoonfuls of
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sugar ; add a pint of milk ; pour this care-
fully over the bread ; let it stand for ten
minutes ; then put the lid on the mold,
and steam or boil continuously for one
hour. Serve with lemon or orange sauce.
Oat Meal fluff ins
The ordinary muffin recipes, which are
always about alike, no matter what flour
is used, may have added to them a cup of
well cooked oat meal ; for instance, sepa-
rate two eggs as for rice muffins ; add to
the yolks a cup of milk ; then add one and
a half cups of whole wheat flour; beat
thoroughly ; add a teaspoonful of baking
powder; beat again; add one cup of
well cooked oat meal, or you may sub-
stitute wheatlet or any of the breakfast
cereals ; fold in the whites of the eggs,
and bake in gem pans in a quick oven
twenty to thirty minutes.
Sandwiches
Little bits of fruit, crisp pieces of
celery, cold meats of all kinds, may be
chopped, properly seasoned, and used for
making fruit, vegetable and meat sand-
wiches.
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VEGETABLES
String beans, cauliflower, carrots,
beets, peas and even a cold boiled potato
may all be cut into neat pieces, mixed
together, and served on lettuce leaves,
dressed with French dressing as a salad.
One cold boiled beet may be used as a
garnish for a potato salad. String beans,
if you have sufficient quantity, may be
served alone as a salad.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Put into a double boiler one quart of milk ; allow it to cook for thirty minutes; then add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, a grating of nutmeg, and one cup of cold boiled rice ; turn this into a baking pan, and bake in a quick oven thirty minutes. Serve cold. Raisins may be added when it is put into the baking pan.
Lemon Rice
Into one cup of cold boiled rice stir one pint of milk ; beat the yolks of three eggs with a half cup of sugar together until light ; add to them the rice and milk ; add the grated yellow rind and the juice of one lemon. Turn this into a baking pan; bake in a moderately quick oven twenty to thirty minutes. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, and beat again. Heap these over the pudding, dust thickly with powdered sugar ; return to the oven to slowly brown ; serve cold.
Paradise Pudding
Pare, core and grate three apples. Separate three eggs ; add to the yolks four tablespoonfuls of sugar ; beat until light ; add a grating of nutmeg and a teaspoonful of lemon juice ; stir in a half cup of cold boiled rice ; mix with this quickly the apples, and beat well ; add a half cup of milk ; turn into a baking dish, and bake for thirty minutes. Make a meringue as in preceding recipe, from the whites of the eggs ; heap it over the top.
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and brown. This pudding maybe served warm or cold.
Compote of Pineapple
Throw a pint of boiling water over one cup of cold boiled rice ; stir for a moment ; drain, and stand at the oven door. Have ready, picked apart, one small pineapple ; add to it a half cup of sugar; heat quickly, stirring constantly. Arrange the rice in the centre of a round dish, making it into a mound, flat on top ; heap the pineapple neatly on this ; pour over the syrup, and send at once to the table. Small quantities of different kinds of fruits that have been left over may be blended and used in this way.
Monday Pudding
Cut bits of whole wheat bread into dice. Use a half cup of any fruit that may have been left over, prunes, raisins, chopped dates or candied fruit. Grease an ordinary melon mold ; put a layer of the bread in the bottom, then a layer of the fruit, and so continue until you have tlie mold filled. Beat three eggs, without separating, with four tablespoonfuls of
sugar ; add a pint of milk ; pour this carefully over the bread ; let it stand for ten minutes ; then put the lid on the mold, and steam or boil continuously for one hour. Serve with lemon or orange sauce.
Oat Meal fluff ins
The ordinary muffin recipes, which are always about alike, no matter what flour is used, may have added to them a cup of well cooked oat meal ; for instance, separate two eggs as for rice muffins ; add to the yolks a cup of milk ; then add one and a half cups of whole wheat flour; beat thoroughly ; add a teaspoonful of baking powder; beat again; add one cup of well cooked oat meal, or you may substitute wheatlet or any of the breakfast cereals ; fold in the whites of the eggs, and bake in gem pans in a quick oven twenty to thirty minutes.
Sandwiches
Little bits of fruit, crisp pieces of celery, cold meats of all kinds, may be chopped, properly seasoned, and used for making fruit, vegetable and meat sandwiches.
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VEGETABLES
String beans, cauliflower, carrots, beets, peas and even a cold boiled potato may all be cut into neat pieces, mixed together, and served on lettuce leaves, dressed with French dressing as a salad. One cold boiled beet may be used as a garnish for a potato salad. String beans, if you have sufficient quantity, may be served alone as a salad.
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