Fruit Compote

5 oranges, cut fine

4 bananas, cut thin

1 cup malaga grapes, cut

1 cup fresh dates, cut 1 cup walnuts Juice of 1 lemon

Sprinkle with sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, and add whipped cream on top.

Harlequin

Cut marshinallows, and put a layer in the bottom of a sherbet glass, then a layer of coarsely chopped walnuts, a layer of fresh cut dates and lastly pineapple, cut in dice. The pineapple must fill the dish. Place whipped cream on top with a cherry.

Orange And Date Jelly

Simmer together 1 1/2 pints water, the juice of 1 lemon, the grated rind of 2 oranges, 1/2 dozen dates and a little nutmeg. Soak 1 tablespoon of gelatine in 1 cup sweet cider, and when the water and fruit boils, add this with 1 cup sugar and the juice of 2 oranges.

Stir, and strain, but keep warm, except one tablespoon, which cool at once, and use in placing quarters and halves of dates around the edge of a mould set directly on ice.

After these are firm, add more jelly and fruit in layers. Turn out when stiff, and surround with whipped cream.

Sweet Fruit Pudding

Heat 1 pint of milk.

Wet 6 level tablespoons cornstarch with a little cold milk. Stir this into the boiling milk, and cook until smooth.

Beat the whites of 4 eggs until stiff, add 1/4 cup sugar, then beat into the pudding.

Stir well over the fire two minutes, then add 1 cup of dessicated cocoanut, or half a fresh one, and 1 cup seeded and chopped dates. 1 teaspoonful vanilla.

Put in a mould, and let chill, and serve with "Vanilla Sauce." Miss Alberta Metzler,

Tapioca Pudding (No Sugar)

Soak 3 tablespoons tapioca in a little water till soft. Boil 1 1/2 pints milk and add tapioca. Put in the well beaten yolks of 3 eggs and 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with a little milk. Add % cup cut dates.

Let it just come to a boil, then pour into a dish to cool. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, stir in in a little powdered sugar, and put on the top of cream.

Date Parfait

1 pint of whipping cream

4 eggs

1/4 cup sugar

3 tablespoons water 1/2 pound ground dates, weighed after grinding

Boil sugar and water in a small dish until it just begins to "spin a thread", then pour over the well beaten eggs, beating continually. Let cool. Whip the cream, add dates, and, with a fork, mix them well through the cream, add the egg and syrup and pour in a mould. Pack in ice and salt, and freeze about four hours. If small moulds are used (baking powder cans are good) not as long a time is required for freezing. Dip a narrow strip of muslin in melted grease, and stretch tightly around where the can and lid join to insure keeping salty water out. Mrs. V. E. metzler,

Coachella, Calif.

Ice Cream

1 quart thin cream 1/4 cup sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla 2 cups dates

Stone and grind the dates, let them soak a few hours in the cream, then add sugar and flavoring and freeze in the usual way.

Tutti Fruita Ice Cream

2 cups milk

Yolks 5 eggs

2 1/2 cups thin cream

3/4 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon vanilla

1 2/3 cups fruit cut in small pieces

Make a custard of first four ingredients, strain, and cool. Add the cream and flavoring, then freeze to the consistency of mush, add the fruit, and continue freezing.

May be served this way, or put in a mould, packed in salt and ice and let stand 2 hours, then slice.

For fruit, use candied cherries, dates, pineapple, figs, .sultana raisins and citron, all, or a part of them.