Half a cup of butter, two and a half cups sugar, one cup boiling water, one dessert spoonful corn starch wet with a little cold milk, one glass of wine, the juice and half the peel of a lemon✪ Fruit Pudding Sauce. Cream the butter and sugar together; pour the corn starch into the boiling water and stir until well thickened; beat all together five minutes in a bowl off the fire, heat then until nearly boiling, add the wine and serve, No. 158 — FRENCH SAUOB. Beat half a pound butter to a cream, stir in half a pound brown sugar, add the beaten yolk of an egg and one gill of wine✪ French Sauce, place it over the fire and keep stirring till it simmers. Grate nutmeg over it before it is sent to table. " That is an excellent sauce for apple dumplings," ob- served Aunt Jane, " but I can tell you of one much 1TO SIX LITTLE COOKS. simpler — plain molasses. I think the combination is excellent." " Isn't it for other dumplings too, Mrs. King? " inquired Edith. " No ; with any other fruit the molasses seems to de- stroy the delicacy of the flavor; but it just suits the apple." " I should like to make some little apple dumplings," said Rose, " such as the farmer's wife gave King George the Third, and he couldn't possibly imagine how the ap- ple got in there." "He wasn't the wisest of men, was he?' said Aunt Jane. " But all you have to do is to roll out your paste and cut little squares of it just large enough to cover an apple, then peel and core your apple, put a little sugar✪ Apple Dumplings in the hole in the center, wrap it tightly in the paste and drop it into boiling water. It doesn't need any cloth, be- cause it keeps its shape well enough without, that is, if the paste is not too rich. Very particular people tie each one up in a separate square of cloth ; but for a family of the size of ours, when some at least will want a second dumpling or part of one, it would be a great labor. I think I should let them take their chance in a good large pot with a plate in the bottom of it" AUNT JANE'S COOKING CLASS. 171 " Have you come to the end of your dumpling recipes, Aunt Jane?" 4 ' By no means, but we have about come to the end of our time, for Rhoda will want us to get out of the way so that she can cook the dinner. So we'll just get the cup- cakes into the oven, and leave the rest of our recipes un- til another time." 172 SIX LITTLE OOOK8. TWELFTH DAY. "Mamma, did you know that Friday was Jessie's birth- day? " asked Grace, pursuing her mother into her bed- room and shutting the door cautiously. " It is, and Aunt Carroll says she will have a little party for her if we will go over and make the things; and won't you please in- vite Jessie here to spend Thursday with Mabel and Amy, so that we can have some surprises?" " Don't you think Jessie will enjoy it more if she has the pleasure of anticipation too?" inquired Mrs. Vernon. " Oh, she knows she is going to have company, but then we'd like to have just a few things that none of them know anything about; and if she is at home she'll want to be all the time in the kitchen, and she'll be in the way, and then the other girls will come over to see her, and so, you see - " so, I see, you've settled it all among yourselves beforehand. Yery well ; I shall make no objection to any thing your aunts decide upon. I suppose A lint Jane will superintend, as usual."

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Half a cup of butter, two and a half cups sugar, one cup boiling water, one dessert spoonful corn starch wet with a little cold milk, one glass of wine, the juice and half the peel of a lemon. Cream the butter and sugar together; pour the corn starch into the boiling water and stir until well thickened; beat all together five minutes in a bowl off the fire, heat it until nearly boiling, add the wine and serve, No. 158 — FRENCH SAUCE. Beat half a pound butter to a cream, stir in half a pound brown sugar, add the beaten yolk of an egg and one gill of wine, place it over the fire and keep stirring till it simmers. Grate nutmeg over it before it is sent to table. " That is an excellent sauce for apple dumplings," observed Aunt Jane, " but I can tell you of one much simpler — plain molasses. I think the combination is excellent." " Isn't it for other dumplings too, Mrs. King? " inquired Edith. " No ; with any other fruit the molasses seems to destroy the delicacy of the flavor; but it just suits the apple." " I should like to make some little apple dumplings," said Rose, " such as the farmer's wife gave King George the Third, and he couldn't possibly imagine how the apple got in there." "He wasn't the wisest of men, was he?' said Aunt Jane. " But all you have to do is to roll out your paste and cut little squares of it just large enough to cover an apple, then peel and core your apple, put a little sugar in the hole in the center, wrap it tightly in the paste and drop it into boiling water. It doesn't need any cloth, because it keeps its shape well enough without, that is, if the paste is not too rich. Very particular people tie each one up in a separate square of cloth ; but for a family of the size of ours, when some at least will want a second dumpling or part of one, it would be a great labor. I think I should let them take their chance in a good large pot with a plate in the bottom of it" " Have you come to the end of your dumpling recipes, Aunt Jane?" 4 ' By no means, but we have about come to the end of our time, for Rhoda will want us to get out of the way so that she can cook the dinner. So we'll just get the cupcakes into the oven, and leave the rest of our recipes until another time." TWELFTH DAY. "Mamma, did you know that Friday was Jessie's birthday? " asked Grace, pursuing her mother into her bedroom and shutting the door cautiously. " It is, and Aunt Carroll says she will have a little party for her if we will go over and make the things; and won't you please invite Jessie here to spend Thursday with Mabel and Amy, so that we can have some surprises?" " Don't you think Jessie will enjoy it more if she has the pleasure of anticipation too?" inquired Mrs. Vernon. " Oh, she knows she is going to have company, but then we'd like to have just a few things that none of them know anything about; and if she is at home she'll want to be all the time in the kitchen, and she'll be in the way, and then the other girls will come over to see her, and so, you see - " so, I see, you've settled it all among yourselves beforehand. Very well ; I shall make no objection to any thing your aunts decide upon. I suppose Aunt Jane will superintend, as usual."

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