Perfection in baking

Boil or bake four good potatoes and take the skins off ; beat up with five ounces of powdered sugar and five eggs, then add one ounce of flour, one and one-half quarts of milk, one-half grated nutmeg, one-half teaspoonful salt and one tablespoonful melted butter. Strain all through colander, fill in lined pie plates and bake like custard. Sweet potatoes or carrots can be used the same way. You may also steam the potatoes until mealy but not watery. — 11 — Rhubarb Pie. Get your rhubarb cleaned and cut in strips one inch long the night before and mix well with sufficient sugar. Next morning strain off the juice and set on the fire ; when boiling add the rhubarb, boil about two minutes, stir two ounces (three good tablespoonfuls) of corn starch into it and take off to cool. A little cinnamon improves it greatly. Gooseberries are prepared in the same manner. European Cherry Pie ( Plamri). Line a flat pie dish or layer-cake tin with American puff paste, dust well with cracker dust and cover the bottom with one layer of stoned cherries and bake half done ; pour over the following creme, and put back in oven for five to seven minutes longer. Creme: Four egg yolks, three ounces sugar, a little cinnamon, and two ounces of flour; mix all together, then add one-half pint of sour cream. Imperial Currant Pie and Tarts. Line one large flat cake tin with Vienna tart paste, making rim extra thick ; fill with following mixture and bake slow : Beat the whites of five eggs very stiff, adding six ounces of powdered sugar, a little at a time; after the eggs are stiff, add two ounces of chopped almonds and half a pint of sour cream; finally add one pint of picked red currants. In winter, use a pint can of preserved currants or one pound of washed English currants. This is the genuine recipe from the German Imperial Court Confectionery, and will repay a hundredfold for the little extra care and trouble required in its preparation. Imperial Vanilla Cream Tart*. Line a dish with Vienna tart paste, making rim double thickness and bake. Beat the whites of four eggs very stiff, adding six ounces of sugar, a little at a time, then mix in the four yolks and two tablespoonfuls of dissolved gelatine with one tablespoonful of vanilla extract or vanilla sugar; pour into the baked pie crusts and set away in ice box until wanted. In the place of vanilla any other flavor or rind and juice of lemon or orange may be used. — 12 — Apple Phi in ri Tarts. Line flat pic dishes with Vienna tart paste, have side with extra thick rim, dust with cracker meal, cut apples in thin slices, lay them closely together, covering the paste with one layer, sprinkle with sugar, pie seasoning, currants, fine citron and almonds, and bake half done; pour over this the same mixture as above. Peaches and plums may be used the same way, but no berries. French Tartlets. Line patty moulds or flat tartlet dishes with American paste, dust well with flour and fill with dried beans or split peas; then pour out all the beans (saving them for the next time) and fill the shells with any jam, jelly or cream. These shells may also be used for oyster patties. ^Metropolitan Cream or *Jelly Tarts. Line moulds as above and fill with jelly or cream and bake, then make a light meringue, spread over the tarts and put back in oven until browned over the top.