Slice four ripe bananas✪ Banana Delight in a glass dish and squeeze the juice of a large lemon over them. Then add a gill of ice water and one-half cupful of sugar. Let stand one-half hour in cold place. Delicious in hot weather. Englataire Hotel, Havana. MOLDED PRUNES. One pint of prunes, one-half cup of sugar, one ounce of gelatine, the rind and juice of one lemon, one pint of water✪ Molded Prunes; boil the prunes in the water and sugar until quite soft, then remove the stones, crack the kernels and add them with the lemon juice and rind and the gelatine dissolved CUSTARDS, CREAMS, DESSERTS, ETC. 309 in a little water; stir all until thoroughly mixed; pour into a mold, set in a cool place till ready to serve, when turn bottom side up and pour over whipped cream. Decorate with a few stuffed prunes. Julia Pullman. RASPBERRY, CURRANT, GRAPE OR PEACH FLUMMERY, Soak one-half package of gelatine in one-half cupful of cold water until soft; heat to boiling two and one-half cupfuls of red raspberry juice; sweeten to taste and turn over the soaked gelatine. Stir until perfectly dissolved, then strain and set the dish on ice to cool. When cold beat the whites of three eggs✪ Raspberry, Currant, Grape or Peach Flummery to a stiff froth and stir into the thickening gelatine. Beat until the whole is a solid foam stiff enough to retain its shape. Turn into small molds previously wet with cold water, then pile roughly in a dish. Strew over some fresh raspberries and serve with whipped cream. Mrs. C. Astor. APPLE FOAM. Pare and quarter enough ripe, juicy apples to make a pint, put on to stew in one pint of water, a teacupful of sugar; let cook until tender with- out breaking. Mix three tablespoonfuls of corn-starch✪ Apple Foam in a little cold water and add to apples, stirring constantly. Cook five minutes, then turn into a mold and set away to cool. Eat with cream and sugar. LuELLA Wilson. ORANGE HONEY. Stir two eggs into one-half pound of granulated sugar, add juice of two oranges and grated rind of one and butter size of a walnut✪ Orange Honey. Cook over a slow fire, stirring constantly, till thick and clear like honey; then pour into custard cups which have had cold water in them, and set in the ice-box to cool. Serve with cream custard. Mrs. Minnie Jewel. IDEAL DESSERT. One quart of milk, the whites of four eggs beaten to a stiff froth, one heaping cupful of sifted flour, one scant cupful of powdered sugar, add a little vanilla and a salt-spoonful of salt✪ Ideal Dessert, beat till very light, bake in gem pans, sift powdered sugar over them and serve with vanilla sauce. Mrs. Sarah Yates. RICE MOLD (TEXAS STYLE.) Cover one-fourth of a box of gelatine with one-quarter of a cupful of cold water and let soak one-half hour. Boil four tablespoonfuls of rice in a kettle of rapidly-boiling water for thirty minutes, drain until the rice is 20 810 CUSTARDS, CREAMS, DESSERTS, ETC. ✪ Rice Mold (Texas Style)

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Slice four ripe bananas in a glass dish and squeeze the juice of a large lemon over them. Then add a gill of ice water and one-half cupful of sugar. Let stand one-half hour in cold place. Delicious in hot weather. Englataire Hotel, Havana. MOLDED PRUNES. One pint of prunes, one-half cup of sugar, one ounce of gelatine, the rind and juice of one lemon, one pint of water; boil the prunes in the water and sugar until quite soft, then remove the stones, crack the kernels and add them with the lemon juice and rind and the gelatine dissolved CUSTARDS, CREAMS, DESSERTS, ETC. 309 in a little water; stir all until thoroughly mixed; pour into a mold, set in a cool place till ready to serve, when turn bottom side up and pour over whipped cream. Decorate with a few stuffed prunes. Julia Pullman. RASPBERRY, CURRANT, GRAPE OR PEACH FLUMMERY, Soak one-half package of gelatine in one-half cupful of cold water until soft; heat to boiling two and one-half cupfuls of red raspberry juice; sweeten to taste and turn over the soaked gelatine. Stir until perfectly dissolved, then strain and set the dish on ice to cool. When cold beat the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth and stir into the thickening gelatine. Beat until the whole is a solid foam stiff enough to retain its shape. Turn into small molds previously wet with cold water, then pile roughly in a dish. Strew over some fresh raspberries and serve with whipped cream. Mrs. C. Astor. APPLE FOAM. Pare and quarter enough ripe, juicy apples to make a pint, put on to stew in one pint of water, a teacupful of sugar; let cook until tender with- out breaking. Mix three tablespoonfuls of corn-starch in a little cold water and add to apples, stirring constantly. Cook five minutes, then turn into a mold and set away to cool. Eat with cream and sugar. LuELLA Wilson. ORANGE HONEY. Stir two eggs into one-half pound of granulated sugar, add juice of two oranges and grated rind of one and butter size of a walnut. Cook over a slow fire, stirring constantly, till thick and clear like honey; then pour into custard cups which have had cold water in them, and set in the ice-box to cool. Serve with cream custard. Mrs. Minnie Jewel. IDEAL DESSERT. One quart of milk, the whites of four eggs beaten to a stiff froth, one heaping cupful of sifted flour, one scant cupful of powdered sugar, add a little vanilla and a salt-spoonful of salt, beat till very light, bake in gem pans, sift powdered sugar over them and serve with vanilla sauce. Mrs. Sarah Yates. RICE MOLD (TEXAS STYLE.) Cover one-fourth of a box of gelatine with one-quarter of a cupful of cold water and let soak one-half hour. Boil four tablespoonfuls of rice in a kettle of rapidly-boiling water for thirty minutes, drain until the rice is 20 810 CUSTARDS, CREAMS, DESSERTS, ETC.

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