Manual for army cooks

Roll the dough into a sheet about one-quarter of an inch thick. Have prepared a well-greased baking dish. Cover the bottom and sides of a wellgreased baking dish with the rolled dough, press it lightly against the sides and bottom, and cut off the edges above the baking dish with a sharp knife. Put into the bottom of the baking dish a thick layer of sliced apples, sprinkle it with sugar and ground cinnamon, then another layer of apples treated in like manner, and so on successively until the dish is full. The top layer of apples should have a dressing of sugar, cinnamon, and small pieces of butter. Wet the top layer with three or four teaspoonfuls of water, and then sprinkle it lightly with dry flour. Take the remainder of the dough, roll it out thin, and cover the dish with it, pressing the paste down round the edges of the dish to join it with the paste that lines the sides. Make three or four incisions in the cover with a sharp knife. Then bake in a moderate oven from one to one and one-half hours. When a fork easily penetrates the pudding, it is cooked. Eat hot with sauce. Alden dried apples, canned apples, canned peaches, or fresh peaches pared, quartered, and the stones extracted, may be used. BAKED APPLE DUMPLINGS. The apples pared, cored, and quartered. Prepare paste as directed in Baked Apple Pudding. When the paste is rolled, cut it into squares, and in the center of each square place the four parts of an apple ; add to each apple a piece of butter the size of a chestnut and a sprinkle of sugar and cinnamon. Envelop the apple in the paste, pressing the edges together. Place the dumplings thus prepared into a well-greased baking pan, edges down. Bake one-half to three-quarters of an hour in a moderate oven. When a fork will easily penetrate the dumplings they are cooked. Alden dried apples may be used. BAKED PUMPKIN PUDDING. 1 quart molasses (not sirup). 4 tablespoonfuls brown sugar. 1 quart sweet milk. 1 quart stewed pumpkin. 4 tablespoonfuls ground 6 eggs, yolks and whites ginger. beaten together. Mix the molasses and milk, adding sugar and ginger. Then stir in gradually the beaten eggs, and then by degrees the stewed pumpkin, or enough of the pumpkin to make a thick batter. Put into a deep dish and bake. Stewed winter squash is an excellent substitute for stewed pumpkin. BAKED HOMINY PUDDING. 1 cup boiled hominy (cold) . 1 large teaspoonful butter, melted. 2 cups sweet milk. 1 teaspoonful white sugar. 3 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, whites to a stiff froth. Pinch of salt. Work the beaten yolks into the hominy alternately with the melted butter. When these ingredients are mixed, put in sugar and salt. Continue beating ; soften the batter with the milk, added gradually; be careful to have the batter smooth. Lastly, stir in the beaten whites. Put into a well-greased baking pan and bake until firm and lightly brown. DOUGHNUTS,