"An't please your Honour," quote the peasant, "This same dessert is very pleasant." - Pope.

Baked Apples

Take the ceres out of good cooking apples, and fill the openings with finely chopped dates.

Bake, after adding a little water, and serve, either hot or cold, with cream and a little sugar.

Mrs. Hugh Proctor,

Coachella, Calif.

Boiled Custard (No Sugar)

V2 pound dates cut in small pieces. Add 1 pint of milk and a pinch of salt.

Cook in a double boiler till thick. This will require nearly an hour.

Cereal Custard Pudding (No Sugar)

1 cupful of left over cooked cereal

1 cupful of milk

A sprinkling of salt

Dates

1 tablespoon of corn syrup

1 egg

Mix the beaten egg, milk, syrup and salt; combine with the cereal; add the dates, and bake as a custard.

Ladies' Home Journal.

Cocoanut And Date Pudding (No Sugar)

1 cup dessicated cocoanut 1/2 pound of dates

1 egg

1 pint of milk

Stone dates, and then fill a shallow pudding dish with alternate layers of cocoanut and dates; beat the egg well,

One cup means 1/2 pint. Cup, tablespoon and teaspoon all mean level measurements.

adding milk, and pour this over the contents of the dish.

Bake in a moderate oven till a nice brown.

Mbs. H. T. Fothergill,

Coachella, Calif.

Dainty Sponge Fruit

(A most delicious and light pudding, especially for children.) 1 egg, its weight in granulated sugar, and three quarters its weight in flour, 1 teaspoonful baking powder.

Beat egg, add sugar and then beat again; next gradually stir in the flour and baking powder; add 1 dessertspoon of milk, and beat well for three or four minutes. Pour into a well greased baking tin, and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes. Serve hot or cold with "stewed

Dates." Mrs. H. T. Fothergill,

Coachella, Calif.

Date Bavarian Cream (No Sugar)

1 pint whipping cream 1 cup milk

1 envelope gelatine 1 cup ground dates

Soak gelatine in 1/2 the milk, whip cream stiff; boil remaining milk and add gelatine. Let cool, then beat till it begins to thicken; stir in whipped cream, mix well and pour into a mould. Serve with whipped cream heaped around.

Date Blanc-Mange (No Sugar)

1 1/2 pints of milk

1 1/2 tablespoons corn or maple syrup 12 seeded dates, cut up small

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 tablespoons of cornstarch

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Mix the cornstarch with 1/4 cup milk. Heat the remaining milk in a double boiler, add cornstarch, syrup, dates and salt, and stir until thick. Cover and cook for twenty minutes.

Add the vanilla, and pour into a dish to cool. Serves five people. Mrs. B. E. Robertson,

Coachella, Calif.

Date Custard (Without Sugar)

Scald 3/4 cup of stoned and chopped dates with 2 cups of milk. Let cool, then add 2 beaten eggs and a pinch of salt.

Pour into greased custard cups, set in a pan of hot water and bake gently till custard is firm.