The New century cook book

One box of Nelson's gelatine, one pint cold water, one pint boiling water, juice of six lemons, two coffee cups sugar. Soak gelatine in cold water until soft. Add boiling water, lemon juice and sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Strain into moulds. Miss Ina Pitner. Cucumber Jelly with Mayonnaise. Take four large cucumbers; remove the outside skin and cut them in strips and stew in about one quart of water with one slice of onion (small), a generous saltspoon of salt and a little white pepper. When the cucumbers become soft, add half a box of gelatine that has been soaking in a small cup of cold water and stir until the gelatine is dissolved. Strain through a fine sieve and when the liquid becomes cold and almost ready to set, peel and slice thin one cucumber and line a plain mold that has been set in cold water, turn in jelly and set in cool place to harden. To serve.—Turn jelly form into a bed of lettuce leaves and serve with mayonnaise. Jellied Fruit. One cup sugar, one-half cup lemon juice, one-half cup boiling water, a little less than half a cup cold water, a little less than half a package of Keystone Silver White gelatine. Soak gelatine in the cold water fifteen minutes. Pour the hot water on the gelatine, add sugar and lemon juice and stir till the gelatine and sugar are dissolved, strain. Slice two large bananas, two oranges and one-third of a pine apple in very thin slices. Put a thin layer of the jelly into a mould and place it New Century Cook Book. in a pan of ice to harden, then put in a layer of fruit and enough jelly to cover it, and put on the ice to harden again. Repeat this until the materials are all used, let it remain on the ice till perfectly hard. Serve with whipped cream. Strawberries or cherries are nice mixed with the fruit. Mrs. N. C. F. Winter Ice Cream. One of the daintiest desserts that can be served in cold weather is " winter ice cream." With the usual ice cream, preferably vanilla, have brought to the table, as an accompanying dish, a boat of hot chocolate or caramel sauce. If the cream is well frozen, the hot and cold, while pleasantly blending, will yet be distinct, even to the " last bite." Mary E. Work, Hillsboro, Ohio. Bananas with Orange Juice. Cut bananas an inch thick and place on dish, sprinkle over one tablespoon powdered sugar to four bananas. Add juice of two oranges. Prepare night before and set in cool place. Raisin Puffs. Two cups of flour, one cup sweet milk, one cup raisins chopped, one-half cup butter, two eggs, two tablespoons baking powder, put in cups and steam three-fourths of an hour, eat with sauce. Mrs. A. N. Warner. Delicious Dessert. Take square pieces of angel food cake, put a teaspoon of meat nuts on, then add whipped cream and candied cherries. Record. Strawberry Trifle, One stale sponge cake sliced, four eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, four cups of milk, one cup of sugar, three pints of fresh strawberries. Scald the milk, beat in the sugar and yolks, and cook until it begins to thicken, about ten minutes. Let it get cold. Cover the bottom of a glass dish with sliced cake, wet with cold custard and strew with berries. Sprinkle with sugar, cover with cake, wet this with custard; more berries sugared and so on until the cake is used up. Pour in all the custard, beat the whites to a meringue with a table-