Peach Snow Balls

Fresh peaches, pealed, soaked sometime in any liquor (cognac or rum), dried thoroughly, rolled in white icing, then shredded cocoanut. Garnish the dish with maiden hair ferns. - Mrs. Treat

Rockford, Ill

Peaches Manhattan Style

Cut round nearly 1 inch thick from slices stale sponge cake. Set them on a serving dish; put 1/2 canned peach on each round cake, hollow side up. Put 1/2 blanched almond or a cherry in each hollow; reduce the syrup with a little sugar and the juice 1/2 lemon; set aside to cool and pour over peaches and cake whipped cream, passed in a bowl.

- Mrs. Dakin

Fig Sweetmeat

Soak figs in sherry wine until tender, open, stuff with a whole marshmallow in center; fill in with chopped candied cherries and walnuts rolled in fine sugar.

Sponge Bananas

Cover the bottom of a flat baking dish with small sponge cakes, or lady fingers; upon these place a layer of whole bananas; sprinkle well with sugar and the juice 1 whole orange; cover with chopped nuts or shredded cocoa-nut. Bake in a medium oven about 15 minutes. Serve with custard sauce or thick cream.

Pineapple Cream

1/2 box gelatine, dissolved in syrup of pineapple; chop fruit fine

1 pint cream, whipped stiff 1 cup sugar in syrup

Beat all together and mould in individual glasses or a fancy mould, using shredded oranges sprinkled with sugar in center.

Old Fashioned Wine Jelly

1 box Cox's gelatine 1 pint cold water Soak 1 hour Rind and juice 1 lemon

1 pint boiling water

1 pint sugar

1 pint sherry wine

Strain and cool in fancy mould.

Strawberries En Surprise

1 quart large strawberries 1/4 cup powdered sugar

1/4 cup maraschino or sherry wine

Mix together lightly, partly fill sherbet glasses, then cover with whipped cream and garnish with whipped cream colored pink and put through a pastry tube. Set on ice for 1 hour before serving. - Mrs. Dakin.

Steamed Figs

Wash 1 lb. figs, cover with cold water and let soak over night. Next morning add 1/2 cup sugar, bring slowly to steaming point, then simmer for 5 minutes. Transfer the figs to a serving dish, reduce the syrup 1/2, let stand until cool, then add a teaspoon sherry and pour over fruit. Serve cold with cream.

Macaroon Surprise

Fill bottom of large dish with macaroons, which have been dipped in brandy; cover with whipped cream, then add layer marshmallows (whole). Continue cream and marsh-mallows until dish is full. Place Maraschino cherries on top. Whipped cream should be flavored with sherry.

Gelatine Rice

1/4 cup rice or 1/2 cup cooked rice left over from day before

1 1/2 cups milk 1/2 teaspoon salt

Cook again until milk is absorbed. Add 2 teaspoons gelatine, dissolved in cold water. When mixture is cold and beginning to thicken, add 1/4cup powdered sugar, 1/2 tea-spoon vanilla, 1/2 pint bottle cream whipped to a stiff froth ; stir it all well and put in mould to harden. Serve with canned cherries, or raspberries or a jelly sauce (jelly melted and flavored with sherry). - Mrs. Raymond C. Cook