This section is from the book "Hanover Cook Book", by The Library Association. Also available from Amazon: The Hanover Cook Book.
1 cup of sweet cream, whites of 2 eggs, well beaten, 2 oranges, 2 bananas cut in small pieces, stir in the cream, sweeten to taste. Set on ice and serve with whipped cream. Mrs. D. D. Ehrhart.
Core the apples. Chop very fine enough walnuts to fill them. Season with cinnamon and sugar. Bake and serve with whipped cream.
Mrs. F. M. Miller, New Oxford, Pa.
1 pt. milk, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful of corn starch. Make into custard and let cool. Beat the whites of eggs into stiff froth, take a pint of finely chopped or mashed apples, beat them into the whites. When the custard is cool lay the beaten whites over the top, dot with a jelly and flavor with vanilla.
Mrs. V. K. Jordan.
Take 10 or 12 good sized juicy apples, pare and core. Butter a baking dish and put into it the apples, fill the cavities with sugar. Take a half teacup of butter, and a tablespoonful of flour, and rub together until smooth. To this put enough boiling water to make it thin enough to cover each apple. Bake in a slow oven 1 hr. or more. Can be eaten with meat or used as a dessert with cream.
A. L. Alleman.
Beat whites of 3 eggs very stiff, add 1 cup of chopped prunes, sugar to taste, and a little vanilla. Bake 15 minutes in hot oven and eat with whipped cream. Prunes must be cooked, seeded, and chop-ped fine. Mrs. Kate W. Himes,
New Oxford, Pa.
One-half pound of best prunes, 1/2 pt. of rich cream, whites of 6 eggs, 6 tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Stew prunes, pour off the syrup, when fruit is cold, chop fine. Beat eggs to a stiff froth, add sugar and prunes. Bake in a buttered dish for 1/2 hour in a moderate oven. Cover for 20 minutes and serve with whipped cream.
Mrs. Frank Conrad.
One-fourth lb. butter, 1/2 lb. sugar, 1 lb. flour, 5 eggs, 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in cup sour milk. Flour to make a good batter. Add 1 pt. or 1 qt. berries well floured. Bake 1 hour.
Mrs. A. C. Matthews.
1 qt. flour, good pinch salt, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 tablespoonful lard. Roll dough lightly into a sheet, spread thick with jam or plum pre-serves, roll up, fasten ends, and put into a floured bag twice the size, and drop into a pot of boiling water. Boil 2 hours. Mrs. J. U. Snively.
1 pt. milk, 4 eggs, 6 spoonfuls flour.
1 cup sugar, 1 egg, nutmeg, 1 teacupful boiling water, butter size of egg. Beat well together before adding the water. Season with juice and grated rind of 1 lemon.
Mrs. G. F. Himes, New Oxford, Pa.
1 cup suet chopped fine, 1 cup raisins, 2 cups molasses, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, pinch salt, 1 teaspoonful baking powder. Flour to stiffen. Boil 2 hours; serve with sauce.
Mrs. J. U. Snively.
 
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