Six little cooks

One-half pound sugar, a quarter of a pound butter, six eggs, two oranges. Grate the rind from the oranges and squeeze the juice, beat the butter to a cream and add the sugar to it little by little, throw in the yolks of the eggs as you break them, beating them with the mixture, add the orange rind and juice, and finally the whites of eggs, beaten to a stiff froth; these must be added slowly. Bake in paste. No. 72— MARLBOROUGH PUDDING. One pint sour apple-sauce, the apples being stewed with only just enough water to keep them from burning, and just long enough to enable yon to pass them through a colander; one-half Ib. sugar, one-half do. butter, six well-beaten eggs, the juice of two lemons and the grated rind of one. Bake in puff paste. No. 73 — LEMON PUDDING. Half a dozen tart apples, stew and strain through a colander, grated rind and juice of two large lemons or three small ones, one teacup cream, one-half do. butter, two cups sugar, yolks of six eggs. Bake one hour in puff paste. No. 74 — LEMON PIE. One large or two small lemons, rind and pulp; after the seeds are taken out, squeeze the pulp well in half a tumbler of water, and strain; yolks of four eggs well beaten, one tablespoon flour stirred with the egg, two do. melted butter, 1 cup sugar, beat well together. Bake until done; then having beaten up the whites of four eggs with three tablespoonfuls powdered sugar, spread it smoothly over the top and set it in the oven a few minutes to brown. " Now let us look over our recipes," said Mrs. King. " Lemon pudding is always good and very simple; apples are not in season, and we have no oranges in the house; the custard pie is nice, but not different enough from lemon to make at the same time. I think we'll have a lemon pie and some puffs of the puff paste, and a raspberry or currant pie of the plainer kind, and perhaps I may think of something else. Grace, see if you think you can make the filling for one of Esther's puddings. They are simple, and always nice." "I think I can, Aunt Jane," said Grace, looking over the receipt. " I suppose I must wet up the corn-starch with water?" " Yes, part of the cupful. Be careful not to put in more water than is required, or your pudding won't stand — that is, it will be soft and liquid, not firm, like a custard." " Beat the eggs separately, Aunty? " " No, that is not necessary, except where it is so stated in the recipe, unless in the case of any kind of nice cake, when the rule is just the reverse. In some lemon pies, only the yolks are put into the mixture, the whites being beaten separately for a cover to the pie ; but where this is the intention, you will find it so explained." So Grace undertook the lemon pudding, and Mrs. King examined into the condition of the fruit-closet. Here she found a quantity of ripe currants and raspberries, and though she declared it was a pity to spoil anything so nice by cooking it, still, to show the girls what could be done with them, she decided to try two recipes - the following an English one: No. 75 — CURRANT AND RASPBERRY TART.