This is the old-fashioned name of some sorts of cheese cakes or tartlets. As it is often to be met with in English and old Virginia bills-of-fare it is necessary to use the term, if only for explanatory purposes. Maids of Honor are different from ordinary patty-pan tarts in, being made of fine puff paste, which rises high in the pans.

Took puff paste, left over from dinner pastry, rolled out thin, cut out with a fancy scollop-edge cutter, large as the top of a coffee cup, and pressed the flats into shallow gem pans. Put a teaspoon-ful of lemon honey (506) - called lemon cheese cake by the "English - in each; baked in a slack oven; took out just before the "cheesecake" began to boil over the edges and spoil the appearance. Served on small pastry plates, four in each set, at intervals down the table.