Chocolate Blanc Mange

Add 1 tablespoon of ground chocolate to the cornstarch and sugar mixture, and proceed as for plain Blanc Mange. Serve with whipped cream.

Fruit Blanc Mange

Substitute fruit juice for the milk and proceed as for plain Blanc Mange. Serve with whipped cream or a custard sauce.

Snow Balls

1/3 cup rice. 1 cup milk.

1/8 teaspoon salt.

Wash rice thoroughly in several waters. Put milk and rice in a double boiler and cook until milk is absorbed and rice is tender. Dip custard or egg cups in cold water then pack with rice and turn out at once on a serving plate. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with whipped cream.

Baked Custard

1/2. cup milk scalded. 1 egg or 2 yolks.

1 tablespoon sugar. 1/4 teaspoon vanilla.

Scald milk in a double boiler; beat egg slightly, add sugar, then add hot milk and vanilla. Pour into buttered custard cups and set in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate oven until custard is firm.

Fruit Meringue

1 cup fruit pulp. 1 tablespoon sugar.

1 egg separated.

Fine dry bread crumbs.

Press any cooked fruit through a coarse sieve. Heat fruit pulp, add sugar and beaten egg yolks. Butter custard cups and cover the bottom and sides with bread crumbs. Pour in the fruit mixture and bake in a moderate oven until firm Beat egg whites until stiff, gradually add 1 tablespoon of sugar. Place in top of pudding and return to a moderate oven and brown slightly. Serve cold.

Charlotte Russe

1/2 cup whipping cream. 1 tablespoon sugar.

Lady fingers. Mashed cooked fruit.

Whip cream, add sugar. Fill individual dishes one-third full of mashed fruit, then line the dish with lady fingers and fill with the whipped cream.

Prune Toast

Heat 1/2 cup prune juice; add juice of 1/2 orange and 1/2 cup cooked, pitted prunes. Mix 1 teaspoonful cornstarch with enough cold water to dissolve; add to hot prune mixture and cook over hot water ten minutes. Pour over buttered toast. A nice breakfast dish or, if garnished with whipped cream, it makes a dessert.

Fruit Betty

Moisten 1 cup soft bread crumbs with 2 tablespoons melted butter. Use 1 cup mashed cooked fruit. Put the buttered crumbs and fruit in a baking dish in alternate layers. Sprinkle each layer with tablespoon sugar and a little lemon or orange juice. Pour over 1 cup fruit juice and bake in a moderate oven about twenty minutes. Serve hot with cream or top milk.